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For it was borne into my mind that our old stronghold was left bare of men, and I knew not what might betide; and that the more, as more than one man has told us how that another band of the disinherited Burgers have fallen upon Higham or the lands thereof, and Higham is no great way hence; so that some five score of these riders are to hold our Castle of the Scaur, and the rest are for thee to ride afield with.
The man stared wild at Ralph while he was speaking, and seemed to stagger in his saddle; then he let his sallet fall over his face, and, turning his horse about, rode swiftly, he and his two fellows, down the hill and away to the battle of the Burgers.
Burgers elected president His character and aspirations His pension from the English Government His visit to England The railway loan Relations of the republic with native tribes The pass laws Its quarrel with Cetywayo Confiscation of native territory by the Keate award Treaty with the Swazi king The Secocoeni war Capture of Johannes' stronghold by the Swazi allies Attack on Secocoeni's mountain Defeat and dispersion of the Boers Elation of the natives Von Schlickmann's volunteers Cruelties perpetrated Abel Erasmus Treatment of natives by Boers Public meeting at Potchefstroom in 1768 The slavery question Some evidence on the subject Pecuniary position of the Transvaal prior to the annexation Internal troubles Divisions amongst the Boers Hopeless condition of the country.
Two daughters of the former President of the Transvaal, the Rev. Thomas François Burgers, were nurses in the Burke hospital in Pretoria, which was established and maintained by a Boer burgher.
When a constable attempted to arrest him, he drew a revolver and shot the unfortunate officer fatally. In due course he was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. "But, Cooper," I queried, "why don't they hang you?" "Well," he replied, "they don't like hanging white men up here, and just now President Burgers is laying out a rose-garden.
Enter Burgers & Women with bowghs & flowres. Cap. 'Tis Kramis -time, In which it is a custome with the people To deck their dores with Garlonds, Bowghes, and flowres That are most gratious. Or. I remember. Stand close. Burg. Strew, strew: more Garlonds and more Flowres. Up with the Bowghes!
But the more bigoted and narrow-minded among them were undoubtedly opposed to English interference, and under their leader, Paul Kruger, who was at the time running for the President's chair, did their best to be rid of it. They found ready allies in the Hollander clientele, with which Mr. Burgers had surrounded himself, headed by the famous Dr.
In or about the year 1872, the burghers of the Republic elected Mr. Burgers their President. This remarkable man was a native of the Cape Colony, and passed the first sixteen or seventeen years of his life, he once informed me, on a farm herding sheep.
"Do you wish me to keep him at a distance?" she asked, indifferently. "No, indeed, only keep him within bounds, so that there will be no unnecessary talk. No harm will come to you from being in his company. We do not stand on the same plane as the burgers, and it would be ludicrous for me, in my position, to enact the jealous husband toward every man who pays my wife attention.
Her black hair, gathered behind her head, was held by a tortoise shell comb. Her face was long and utterly calm. Eggs, homefries, and burgers sizzled in front of her. She dropped slices of bread into an industrial toaster, flipped and scrambled, stirred and buttered, served and cleaned with untroubled movements of her arms and hands.
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