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Natal Causes of increase of the native population Happy condition of the Natal Zulus Polygamy Its results on population The impossibility of eradicating it Relations between a Zulu and his wives Connection between polygamy and native law Missionary work amongst the Zulus Its failure Reasons of its failure Early days of Natal Growth of the native question Coming struggle between white and black over the land question Difficulty of civilising the Zulu Natal as a black settlement The constitution of Natal Request for responsible government Its refusal The request renewed and granted Terms and reason of Lord Kimberley's offer Infatuation of responsible government party in Natal Systematic abuse of colonists in England Colonial speculators Grievances against the Imperial Government Sir Henry Bulwer Uncertain future of Natal Its available force Exterior dangers The defence question shirked by the "party of progress" The confederation question The difficulty of obtaining desirable immigrants The only real key to the Natal native question Folly of accepting self-government till it is solved.
Nor did he forget to thank and compliment the admiral; and I cannot deny myself the pleasure of transcribing from Kimberley's reply some generous and engaging words. "My dear captain," he wrote, "your kind note received. You went out splendidly, and we all felt from our hearts for you, and our cheers came with sincerity and admiration for the able manner in which you handled your ship.
But there is another and more immediate reason for Lord Kimberley's generous offer. He knows, no one better, that the policy pursued in South Africa, both as regards the Transvaal and Zululand, must produce its legitimate fruit bloodshed before very long.
Nor did he forget to thank and compliment the admiral; and I cannot deny myself the pleasure of transcribing from Kimberley's reply some generous and engaging words. "My dear captain," he wrote, "your kind note received. You went out splendidly, and we all felt from our hearts for you, and our cheers came with sincerity and admiration for the able manner in which you handled your ship.
I do not, however, believe that the majority of any Council returned will consent to accept Lord Kimberley's proposal as it stands; to walk into a parlour in which the spider is so very obvious, and to deliberately undertake the guardianship of all the Imperial interests in South-Eastern Africa.
To this important communication no answer was ever vouchsafed, but on 7th August, long after it was in the hands of Ministers, Mr Thomas Scanlan, the Premier, wrote a long reply to the earlier memorandum of 26th May. The writer began by quoting Lord Kimberley's remarks on that memorandum, which were as follows: "I have received the memorandum on the Basuto question by Major-General Gordon.
This idea seems to have penetrated into Lord Kimberley's official mind, since in his despatch of instructions to Sir H. Bulwer, written in February last, he says, "Probably if the chiefs are left to themselves after a period more or less prolonged of war and anarchy, some man will raise himself to the position of supreme chief."
A thorn bush or two sticks up on it, or, now and then, the ghastly shape of a dead horse lying in puffed up relief with legs sticking out stiff and straight and an awful stench blowing from it. Kimberley's search-light at stated intervals still swings its spoke over our head.
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