Adamantia : the truth about the South African diamond fields : or, a ...

8lJJDUBY. 99Town Colonial Secretary, and, apparently, Waterboer'sgreat advocate and ally) reply to the above twopropositions.Mr. Harvey's power of attorney, ·and the deed ofsale already quoted, would satisfy any just mind as tothe right and legality of the sales effected; but, asWaterboer and Co. now dispute them in toto, we mut,par force, produce and enter into the analysis andexamination of the whole mass of evidence existingthereon.Before, however, proceeding to do so, and probablycumbering and muddling the case (as I believe thatsufficient proof has already been given to satisfy anyunprejudiced mind that Adam Koklegally sold, and theFree State rightly purchased, both the open groundsof that chief and the late Cornelius Kok), I will assuccintly as possible sum up what I have done, or tried.to do, up to this point of my work, in the way ofproving the real ownership of Adamantia-the tribesor people in whom the territorial right or sovereigntyreally exists. Moreover, in law, by law civil andinternational, the same state still prevails; though, fora time, perhaps, brute force has usurped the rule andpOssession of the country, and, in f8.ct, an interregnumexists - the mongrel institutions sUtrted by the ColonialGovernment of the Cape Colony, professing to be halfColonial, half Griqua, being illegal in every sense andphase, transitory, and doomed to early dissolution,when the rig1itful Fme State aUlhority should return.SUlDIARY OP TEmuTORIAL RIGHTS IN AnAlrU.NTIA.1. It has been oonolusively shown that the peopleand the Government of the Orange Free state atu2Digitized by Goog Ie