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114: T. SINDD'S EVIDENCE."."f.~with Rabie in 1854, I p1U'Cbased the WitputB" (farm) "from cripple.Jan Pienaar, a Griquo, in Adam Kok's territory. Adam Kok Wl'Oteto me that there was a dispute about the ground. •. I thenmet Adam Kok; he told me then that the largest portion of it wasin Oaptain Waterboer's territory. I then disputed it, and said,'That is of Comelius Kok. Hendrik du Toit told me that it Y88 inOomeliU8 Kok's ground.' He asked me, , Whether I wanW to mowbetter than he?' CorneliU8 Kok is his uncle, and that he hadlor/filed (1) all right by his tumult and bloodshed. He had no ground.He said it belongs to Waterboer; there is no other chief thanWaterboer who has ground. He further said, Oorrteli." Kol rwiMtl,. OMltpHll III tI ItIIJj6d of Wtlwhow (2). . . • About a monthafter this I rode to CorneliU8 Kok at Titiespan • . • _ AI t.ltlfill M W tID grOUffll of !aN OfDII, tlll grOtlM lJIlMtglfl to W"tlwlJow. • •. • H, j'urtlaw Mitl tlatlt W tlwhow ""pioy,d /ai.. til tI ...,..trate toMill PlU, 111M." • • • (3)After a little more desultory evidence, this witnessthen stated: "It was then all lost " (his money I presume),"and I went away."NOTES TO ABOVE DEPOSmoN:-(1.) If CorneliU8 Kok ever "forfeited" territorial rights, it isadmitted that he once had such, although this Waterboer illogicallydenies; for he could not lose that which he never po8lle88ed. Nowhereelse can any such statement be met with, moreover.(2.) As to whether Cornelius Kok was an independent chief, or asubject of Water boer's, we shall soon prove by the m888 of evidenceupon the former side, in addition to such information as we havealready dealt with.(3.) ..A.propo' of this dodge by which Mr. Binden seems to havebeen cheated, we cannot do better than quote the following statementin Attorney-General Porter's able Memorandum 10 freelyreferred to in Chapters n., m., and IV."If a movement were made to arrest a 1Jow who had :flogged anative, or to NpoI'''' • how oj "farm ouupilfl tmtlw tI ,,u, w!aiei1M GritUIII Dtlftfti",l, tliIputed til IIf.wi", 6",. fIIIIi, 6g .. ittdiWltullDigitized by Goog Ie