The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars
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Derbyshire, were it not for the trouble which the weakness of theBritish government, in sending back Cetewayo to Zululand, brought about,and from the increasingly bad feeling growing up between the Boers andthe natives, owing to the constant aggressions of the latter, and theirill-treatment of the natives, in defiance of the agreements in thetreaty with the British government. If the day should come when thenatives at last rise and avenge upon the Boers the accumulated injuriesof many years, neither Dick Humphreys nor Tom Jackson will be inclinedto lift a hand to save the Boers from their well-merited fate. Theexample of the successful resistance offered by the Basutos to the wholepower of the Cape government has had an immense effect among the nativetribes of South Africa, and sooner or later the colonists there willhave a very serious crisis to pass through. Dick hopes that this crisiswill not occur in his time, for Mr Humphreys intends in another fifteenyears, if he live so long, when his first-planted trees will have gainedmaturity, to divide his great forest into lots, to sell off, and toreturn to his native land. Dick quite agrees in the plan, and hopessome day to be settled with an abundant competency in Old England.
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