TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Early History.
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Variety of political and social conditions of South Africa makes its history specially instructive—Connection of South-east Africa with trading nations of antiquity—The discovery of the maritime route to India causes the Cape to be used as a halfway-house by the Portuguese, English, and Dutch traders—
A station established in 1652 by the Dutch East India Company—The station becomes a settlement—Huguenot emigration—Relations of the Company to the natives, and to the Franco-Dutch settlers—Review of the period of the Company’s government ..... 1
CHAPTER II.
The Kafir Wars.
Early British Government. Introduction of English element by Albany Settlement—The expansion of the Cape Colony becomes a record of conflicts between the white settlers and the Kafirs, i.e. military Bantu—Emancipation of coloured races within the colony—Colonial frontier policy reversed by Lord Glenelg—Emigration of large section of Franco-Dutch population—The cost of the Kafir wars determines the British Government to allow the dismemberment of the white communities, and to withdraw from the administration of native territories outside the limits of the Cape Colony and Natal—Independence of emigrant farmers in the Transvaal (1852), and in the Orange River Sovereignty (1854), recognised—Grant of Representative Government to the Cape Colony—General progress of the Colony . . 25
CHAPTER III.
Sir Bartle Frere and Federation.
Sir George Grey—Kafir Policy—German immigration—His condemnation of dismemberment of South Africa, and proposals for the introduction of a Federal system—The dis-