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

GENERAL HAY'S lIISTATEMEX'1'S AGAtl(. 273f!'rnll~nt to tIIu forci"'" pOIlmilm.of an """,;fI' "'act of country,pr,,,ioUlly, from limB immemorial,.in tM occtIpIItilm of nati", alJ"rigi,.",who do not appear by any_ of theirs to have divestedthemselves in favour of the FreeStat.e of their rights to the same."SB«mtll,. That a large numberof British subjects were at the"time, fIIi'" til, conBmt of tM laid1ftl,i"", resident within the limits.of that tract of country, and werein danger of being compelledby the Free State Government,tacitly at least, to acknowledgethat ita right to the territory hadbeen established, andofbecomingparties to the forcible subjection-of the oountry to the jurisdictionof that Government; and,"TMrtU,. ThatWaterboer had.appealed to me against yo~ prooeedings,and notified his intentionof appealing to Her Majeatythe Queen ••..(tI) "15. The line 8Ode6ned byAdam Kok is that now known asthe Vetberg line, "'" it " fIOII/Mr'l,wllllf (MIll Ftltw_ lIM MIIItIY'tlIlfi«l) eAtlt F tJtw_ fIIfl. tI prIrly10 eAtJt tlI}lni#(J1f, or ever expreeeedhis concurrence in it, u.. ~,JHII"tl MolI/n 10 MD' "'". prifl, 10 itlleing .4."m Eok, on eM on, MM,words. this" c erflct of cow,t"!I,' litutltetllotil, ","'",,/ tM YtUll Rif)W,MI_in tM ulfflUtllrW PII'",,;,,ntiM occupation of """g,,"' 0/ tMOrang' Fr" Stilt, FOR TIlE UST20 YBAll8! " No" nati", aHrigiM'"exist therein; they wereexterminated by General Hay'sfriends, the Griquaa (see p. 24 to28, Chapter II.), ofwhoae history,however, he appears to be absolutelyignorant!"8,condly." How these aboriginal"natives," who had ~nextinct for 60 years, could havegiven their CI COnI",t," GeneralHay does not explain. I, withmany hundreds of diggers, waacc resident within that tract ofcountry;" I did not see OMGriqua inhabitant (if GeneralHay thinb they are aboriginea),but I did see the old dwellingsof the Free State farmers, and didenjoy the protection of the FreeState officials, by whose "oonsent"we were there !cc Tkirtlly." We have alreadyseen, by the Convention of 1854,&c., that General Hay had noright to interfere.(tI) By this tisaue of falsehoodsdoes General Hay seek to disposeof the Vetberg line! The Vetbergtreaty itself declares Adam and .Cornelius Kok, Waterboer andJan Bloem, as well as the FreeState Government, to have beenparties thereto. Whilst we haveseen that Waterboer and hisTDigitized by Goog Ie