Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925 / 2008-07-30 00:00:00

EBOOK CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS ***


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CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS
OR, REMARKS ON RECENT EVENTS IN ZULULAND, NATAL, AND THE TRANSVAAL.

By H. Rider Haggard

First Published 1882.

PREPARER'S NOTE
This text was prepared from an 1882 edition published by
Trubner & Co., Ludgate Hill, London.

"I am told that these men (the Boers) are told to keep on agitating in
this way, for a change of Government in England may give them again
the old order of things. Nothing can show greater ignorance of English
politics than such an idea. I tell you there is no Government--Whig
or Tory, Liberal, Conservative, or Radical--who would dare, under any
circumstances, to give back this country (the Transvaal). They would not
dare, because the English people would not allow them."--(_Extract
from Speech of Sir Garnet Wolseley, delivered at a Public Banquet in
Pretoria, on the 17th December 1879._)
"There was a still stronger reason than that for not receding (from
the Transvaal); it was impossible to say what calamities such a step
as receding might not cause.
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