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The following are extracts from his examination:--
"(Sir E. Wood.) Are you a Christian?--Yes.
"(Sir H. de Villiers.) How long were you a slave?--Half a year.
"How do you know that you were a slave? Might you not have been an
apprentice?--No, I was not apprenticed.
"How do you know?--They got me from my parents, and ill-treated me.
"(Sir E. Wood.) How many times did you get the stick?--Every day.
"(Sir H. de Villiers.) What did the Boers do with you when they caught
you?--They sold me.
"How much did they sell you for?--One cow and a big pot."
On the 28th May 1881, amongst the other documents handed in for the
consideration of the Royal Commission, is the statement of a headman,
whose name it has been considered advisable to omit in the blue book for
fear the Boers should take vengeance on him. He says, "I say, that if
the English Government dies I shall die too; I would rather die than be
under the Boer Government. I am the man who helped to make bricks for
the church you see now standing in the square here (Pretoria), as a
slave without payment.


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