This population was scattered over a space as large as Germany, and larger than Pennsylvania, New York, and New England.

Their form of government was individualistic and democratic to the last degree compatible with any sort of cohesion.

Their wars with the Kaffirs and their fear and dislike of the British Government appear to have been the only ties which held them together.

They divided and subdivided within their own borders, like a germinating egg.
The Transvaal was full of lusty little high-mettled communities, who quarreled among themselves as fiercely as they had done with the authorities at the Cape.

Lydenburg, Zoutpansberg, and Potchefstroom were on the point of turning their rifles against each other.