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CONSTITUTION OF WATlmBOlm'S CASE. 115" and northwards to Platberg," which occurs in thealleged " Agreement" (.A~ No.5) we reviewed inthe last chapter!Instead of abiding by the terms of a seemingly undoubtedlygenuine, recognimd, and executed officialdocument, Waterboer and his allies mn back upon themost vague, ambiguous, and incomprehensible sentencein a most dubious, and certainly never'known or fulfilledireaty ! And from which, even then, they haveno excuse for dragging in the midway point of David'sGrai,-that place never once being named in thedocument!The . latter portion of paragraph 1 (Annen,., No.1)if possible still more plainly settles the eastern boundaryof Waterboer, and confirms, beyond a doubt,· the viewor theory by which I am. . guided just here-viz., thatAndries Waterboer in this document considers andrefers to the Griquas under Cornelius Kok also, whenhe mentions the Griquas of Philippolis, or those underthe Chief (Dam Kok in those days) of Philippolis. Theclause I especially refer to is this:-"The nations residing against my boundaries are, Off eM MIl, eM('JrigutII of P~l;,: ON THB NOB'l'll-BA.8T, A DIDB OB KolWr.A8." .The remainder of the pa.ra.gra.ph only relates to thetribes on the " north, south, and west," with which weare not concemed.Now; we have already seen that Ramah is given asthe eastern point or boundary of Water boer's territory ;that he fully recognized and admitted the old line ofdemarcation between Griqua. Town and Campbell asthe continuation of that eastern boundary, and also in·cluded the Griquas of Campbell with those " of Phi·Digitized by Goog Ie