They are perpetually talking about their laws; but practically theirs is only the law of the strongest.

The Bechuanas could never understand the changes which took place in their commandants.

"Why, one can never know who is the chief among these Boers.

Like the Bushmen, they have no king--they must be the Bushmen of the English." The idea that any tribe of men could be so senseless as not to have an hereditary chief was so absurd to these people, that, in order not to appear equally stupid, I was obliged to tell them that we English were so anxious to preserve the royal blood, that we had made a young lady our chief.

This seemed to them a most convincing proof of our sound sense.