"What right has your government to set up that large glass at the Cape to look after us behind the Cashan Mountains ?" Many of the Boers visited us afterward at Kolobeng, some for medical advice, and others to trade in those very articles which their own laws and policy forbid.

When I happened to stumble upon any of them in the town, with his muskets and powder displayed, he would begin an apology, on the ground that he was a poor man, etc., which I always cut short by frankly saying that I had nothing to do with either the Boers or their laws.

Many attempts were made during these visits to elicit the truth about the guns and cannon; and ignorant of the system of espionage which prevails, eager inquiries were made by them among those who could jabber a little Dutch.

It is noticeable that the system of espionage is as well developed among the savage tribes as in Austria or Russia.

It is a proof of barbarism.