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Pioneers and Founders

CHAPTER X
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He gave a ready welcome to the Captain, and his presents--some looking-glasses, a pair of epaulettes, and some coloured prints, especially full-lengths of George IV.

and William IV.

The collection in a place such as Natal then was must have been very hard to make, but it was very successful, and still more so was the Captain's presenting himself in his uniform when he went to propose the treaty.
Dingarn said he must look at it before he could do anything else, and fully appreciated the compliment when the sailor said it was his war dress, in which he appeared before King William.

He agreed to the treaty, but declared that the English would be the first to break it.

The Captain answered that a true Englishman never broke a treaty, and that any white man who deceived was not the right sort of Englishman; and the king responded that "now a great chief was come, to whom he could speak his heart." Captain Gardiner tried to impress on him that it was the fear of God that made himself an honourable man, and to persuade him that the knowledge of the "Book" would make him and his people still greater; and the next time of meeting set forth an outline of the morality and promises of Revelation.


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