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Not a bit. We know how to treat Kaffirs. Probing at random I had touched a very sensitive nerve. We had got down from underneath the political and reached the social. What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is not Slagters Nek, nor Broomplatz, nor Majuba, nor the Jameson Raid. Those incidents only fostered its growth.
His camp was still menaced by the men whom he had repulsed, and he could not weaken it by sending reinforcements up the hill. But the roar of the musketry was rising louder and louder. It was becoming clearer that there was the main attack. It was a Majuba Hill action up yonder, a thick swarm of skirmishers closing in from many sides upon a central band of soldiers.
England achieved, at the beginning of her modern history, that one thing human imagination will always find heroic the story of a small nationality. The business of the Armada was to her what Bannockburn was to the Scots, or Majuba to the Boers a victory that astonished even the victors. What was opposed to them was Imperialism in its complete and colossal sense, a thing unthinkable since Rome.
Language affecting the relations between the Mother Country and the Colonies, such as I have quoted, does infinite mischief more mischief than those who do not mix with the people can understand. It is as bad in its consequences as the unfortunate policy of Mr. Gladstone: the "Majuba Hill" policy. "Mr.
Yes, it'll be at Doornkop, unless But, no, they'll track him, trap him, get him now. Johannesburg wasn't ready. Only yesterday I had a cable that " he stopped short ... "but they weren't ready. They hadn't guns enough, or something; and Englishmen aren't good conspirators, not by a damned sight! Now it'll be the old Majuba game all over again. You'll see." "It certainly will set things back.
He began with an aged man who had fought at Majuba. "Well, Mr Cavendish, and what do you think of the war this morning." "Lor' bless you, things beant what they were in my young days. At Majuba, now, we did things a bit different-like. But these 'ere Germans, now, they be getting on right well. Be they for us?"
When he led the Boers at Majuba and Laing's Nek, in 1881, he was in the prime of his life energetic, resourceful, and undaunted by any reverses. In 1899, when he followed the commandos into Natal, he was absolutely the reverse slow, wavering, and too timid to move from his tent.
Finally came the defeat of Majuba Hill, where 400 infantry upon a mountain were defeated and driven off by a swarm of sharpshooters who advanced under the cover of boulders. Of all these actions there was not one which was more than a skirmish, and had they been followed by a final British victory they would now be hardly remembered.
When other leaders had spoken, the picturesque custom of renewing the oath of fealty to the country's flag was observed, as it had been every fifth year since the days of Majuba Hill. Ten thousand farmers uncovered their heads, raised their eyes toward the sky and repeated the Boer oath:
And, after watching his career for a quarter of a century, I have seen no reason to alter that opinion. He is the statesman of Canada one of the ablest men on the Continent. I wish he administered the Colonial relations of the whole Empire. Had he done so for the last ten years we should have escaped our mistakes in South Africa, and the everlasting disgrace of Majuba Hill.
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