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That Cetywayo personally detested the Boers is made clear by his words to Mr. Fynney. "'The Boers, he says, 'are a nation of liars; they are a bad people, bad altogether. I do not want them near my people; they lie and claim what is not theirs, and ill-use my people. I informed him that Mr. Burgers had left the Transvaal. 'Then let them pack up and follow Thomas, said he. 'Let them go.
"Be not so wroth, little lord, or I shall be asking thee tales of marvels also. But hearken. I shall smooth out thy frowns with a smile when thou hast heard this: this folk are not only afeard of their old enemies, the devil-led men, but also they fear those whom the devil-led men have driven out of house and home, to wit, the Burgers.
Do you disperse to the old Companies, Bid 'em be ready; tell 'em now is the time, And charge 'em keepe a strong eye ore the Burgers. Ile up to'th Guard. Sold. Wee'le doe it seriously. Enter Prince of Orange, William, Captaine, Leiutenant, &c. Or. None of our frends upon the Portt? Is this the welcom Of such a Towne, so bound in preservation To us and ours? 2 Cap. The Prince is sadly angry. Leiut.
Burgers read me, too, the draft of his protest, and asked me if I saw any objection to it, or thought it too strong.
"Long and bitter was the battle, and the Burgers were fierce without head-strong folly, and the Wheat-wearers deemed that if they blenched now, they had something worse than death to look to.
We were all rather sad, asking each other if we were merely the sport of a bad dream or if this was indeed the will of God. T resolved to make one more effort and ask an interview with the President of the Transvaal, Mr. Burgers. It was granted to me.
Huge was the slaughter; for the Wheat-wearers deemed they had many a grief whereof to avenge them; nor were the men of the Dry Tree either sluggards or saints to be careless of their foemen, or to be merciful in the battle: but at last the murder was stayed: and then the men of the Wheat-wearers went from house to house in the town to find the women of their folk who had been made thralls by the Burgers.
It was an hour later when he opened his eyes. "I was going to wake you at three," Suzanne said. "Make that two gardenburgers," he said. "I'd better take a shower." Suzanne cut up an onion and fried it with the burgers. "Damn," Oliver said, emerging from the steamy bathroom, "onions!" He was still waking up. Suzanne was dressed again.
These doctrines were not, however, at all acceptable to Burgers' party, or the more enlightened members of the community, and so bitter did the struggle of rival opinions become that there is very little doubt that had the country not been annexed, civil war would have been added to its other calamities.
Yes, yes; Lanyon is bad, but Burgers is worse," and the comfortable old gentleman groaned aloud at the troubles in which he foresaw he would be involved, and finally took his departure by a bridle-path over the mountain, saying that, as things had turned out, he would not like it to be known that he had been calling on an Englishman.
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