Against these attributes their pig-headedness, narrow-mindedness, laziness, and slovenliness had to be admitted.

All these defects militated against their living in harmony with a large, increasing, and up-to-date community like the Johannesburg Uitlanders.

Still, one could not forget that the Transvaal was their country, ceded to them by the English nation.

They left Cape Colony years ago, to escape our laws, which they considered unjust.

It is certain we should never have followed them into the Transvaal but for the sudden discovery of the gold industry; it is equally true they had not the power or the wish to develop this for themselves, and yet without it they were a bankrupt nation.