The current was running swift, and the roar of the fall was already sounding louder in the ear.
On June 12th Sir Alfred Milner received a deputation at Cape Town and reviewed the situation.

'The principle of equality of races was,' he said, essential for South Africa.

The one State where inequality existed kept all the others in a fever.

Our policy was one not of aggression, but of singular patience, which could not, however, lapse into indifference.' Two days later Kruger addressed the Raad.

'The other side had not conceded one tittle, and I could not give more.