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t to travel to the Cape without women, so the captain has agreed to hold his ship here for two days. to see how the years that had handled him so roughly had scarely touched this bright-faced young man. On the way back to De Kraal in the new wagon, Tjaart thought several times that he would burst into tears before his entire family, something he had never done. Of course, most Boers grumbled about the English administra- tion, its creeping modifications of law and custom, but su

'We can surrender. He pointed out how relatively simple this was, and how direct. pro- clamation with him, pausing occasionally to reread the offensive lines, but on the third day he assembled all member tion, ran from the arena and told the people the mission station, 'They are all going to be killed.