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Updated: June 15, 2025
It is impossible to estimate the damage done to British influence, prestige, and power by the political consequences resulting from that disastrous day. The south-eastern part of the Transvaal is as bare, and treeless, and altogether as uninteresting and unattractive as the south western region, between Bechuanaland and Klerksdorp, through which I had travelled a few weeks previously.
He told me also that some of the rumours current in the town, and firmly credited, reported that Oom Paul had annexed Bechuanaland, that he was then about to take Cape Colony, after which he would allow no troops to land, and the "Roineks" would have been pushed into the sea. His next step would be to take England. Mr.
Gold was poured into the hands of tea-planters in Ceylon. Scanty wages in strange coins, dribbled out to factory workers in Russian cotton mills. Gangs of navvies went to work laying railway lines across the veldt in Bechuanaland. There was no end to the energy controlled, directed by these cable messages, nor any bounds to the field of their influence.
To this Britain replied by establishing a protectorate over Bechuanaland at the request of native chiefs: the motive of this annexation was, not suspicion of Germany, for this suspicion did not yet exist, but the desire to protect the native population.
Rhodes, in his later and better-known character of Empire-builder, was able from Bechuanaland as a base to extend the domain of his Chartered Company up to the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in the year 1889. It is well known that Rhodes hoped to extend the domain of his company as far north as the southern limit of the British East Africa Company.
I will cite one other instance among many of the gladness with which different native races placed themselves under the protection of the Queen. In May, 1884, in the discharge of his office as Deputy Commissioner in Bechuanaland, and on behalf of Her Majesty, the Queen, Mr. Mackenzie asking to be put under the same protection as the other Barolong. Mr.
George's Church, Cape Town. She had been engaged to him before he left England, and had given up home and parents to go out to Africa and become a missionary's wife. No truer helper could Moffat have found, for she loved the work, and experienced great happiness in her life, notwithstanding all its toils and danger. Shortly after, Mr. and Mrs. Moffat started for Bechuanaland.
The people in this neighbourhood are very sanguine; I was told that this may prove a great discovery for Bechuanaland. Having received the same hospitable attention, as elsewhere, at Vryburg, our wagon party once more resumed its journey.
Let me add this that the Bechuanaland expedition, which was led by Sir Charles Warren, and in which I had the good fortune to take part, cost the Mother Country perhaps £1,500,000, but in the discussions in Parliament or in the press as to the future of Bechuanaland, the fact is seldom mentioned that Bechuanaland was acquired for the Empire at the cost of the British taxpayer.
He had a very high opinion of Bechuanaland as a cattle-grazing country.
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