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object to our annexation. " (1)
It ans suCeeutad that annexation
had boos almost an act of kindnoaa to cave the Boars fron
dectruction by the native tribes and from internal ch&oa, (a)
The Boers wore roprosontod at "wild characters, whoso hand was
a ainc3t cocioty, and they had left their country... to live in
9L wild countryt untrammelled by any lawn. They had op rcnood,
robbed and shot down* the nativen of that country. '" 0)
otorcotypo of tho Doer charoctor was prooentod, " "of all the
racca I over met, they can boaat of being the moat extraordinari1. y
dilatory and indolent
f .
l4ont dirty, uncouth and unkempt*"
Similar descriptions were being written in 1900. The view had
developed that the British wore racially cuporior to the Tutch"
British prestige was connidorod important, especially after tha
defeat of Sa Juba Hill,, wheen, « "On every cide wo hour the uoual
cry for vengeance and for vindication of the national honour. "
Juba was an or . olive word, signifying national humiliations
(1) I3othadint ]Recorder, 11th Fobruur ' 1881*
(2) The Dutch and Enrlinh in South Africa By one who harp lived
nineteen years among them, London MI.,
L ISS hauten of firzmin
. ha Lund Evnnin
. Debating,, äc
Birmingham Mafercnc© Library$ Local History Collection#
27th February 1881.
(Z) C. O. Transvaal i88i, pamphlet forwarded to C. Q. ".
"A fell hints y facts, etc, tnthorod from life among the Doors. '$
ýý flonconformi t and Indnrondent, 3rd March 1881.
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