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Indeed, it was difficult to find a more homogeneous, handsome and dedicated body of people than those Afrikaners nurtured on the veld and in the valleys of the continent's southern tip. Adventurers from all nations, believing themselves to be fighting for liberty against aggression, had flocked to South Africa, and one important French colonel died in their ranks. n Krause, grandson of Piet Krause, was determined to stamp out even the slightest signs of black insurgency. ' As an afterthought he added, 'This great onslaught was no willful waste of God's creatures.

Thirteen percent of the land, tradi- tional sites for kraals, had been set aside, and there blacks could own land. But without medicines . Only one poverty-stricken Afrikaner came out of the affair better than when he went in: after the fighting, when Nxumalo reassem- bled the However, the journey was a hundred miles, and he might not have gone had he not received a surprising telegram from