Most people honestly believed that President Kruger was aiming at destroying English prestige throughout the vast dark continent, and would have been horrified had they known what was going on in that distant land.

Fortunes were made on the Rand in a few days, but very few Englishmen were among the number of those who contrived to acquire millions.

Englishmen, indeed, were not congenial to the Transvaal, whilst foreigners, claiming to be Englishmen because they murdered the English language, abounded and prospered, and in time came sincerely to believe that they were British subjects, owing to the fact that they continually kept repeating that Britain ought to possess the Rand.
When Britain came really to rule the Rand the adventurers found it did not in the least secure the advantages which they had imagined would derive from a war they fostered.

This question of the Uitlanders was as embarrassing for the English Government as it had been for that of the Transvaal.

These adventurers, who composed the mass of the motley population which flourished on the Rand, would prove a source of annoyance to any State in the world.