If they had ever heard of Galileo, they would have looked upon him as an impostor.

They place the authority of the Old Testament above that of the New.

There are three contending sects in the Transvaal, whose hostility is such that both before and after 1881 threats of Civil War were indulged in.
3 .-- _The Boers saved by the English._ In 1871, the question of fixing the frontier between the Transvaal and the Barolongs, a Bechuana tribe, was submitted to arbitration.

The decision was given by Mr.Keate, Governor of Natal.

President Pretorius having accepted it, the Boers deposed him, and continued to occupy the territory to which they laid claim.