Cetywayo and his White Neighbours

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Title: Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events
in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Author: H. Rider Haggard
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CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS By H. Rider
Haggard
First Published 1882.
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CETYWAYO
AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS
OR,
REMARKS ON RECENT EVENTS IN ZULULAND, NATAL, AND
THE TRANSVAAL.
BY
H. RIDER HAGGARD

"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. . . . For such a risk he could not make
himself responsible. . . . Difficulties with the Zulu and the frontier
tribes would again arise, and looking as they must to South Africa as a
whole, the Government, after a careful consideration of the question,
came to the conclusion that we could not relinquish the
Transvaal."--(/Extract from Speech of Lord Kimberley in the House of
Lords, 24th May 1880. H. P. D., vol. cclii., p. 208./)

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

INTRODUCTION
The writer on Colonial Affairs is naturally, to some extent, discouraged
by the knowledge that the subject is an unattractive one to a large
proportion of the reading public. It is difficult to get up anything
beyond a transient interest in the affairs of our Colonial dependencies;
indeed, I believe that the mind of the British public was more
profoundly moved by the exodus of Jumbo, than it would be were one
of them to become the scene of some startling catastrophe. This is the
more curious, inasmuch as, putting aside all sentimental considerations,
which indeed seem to be out of harmony with the age we live in: the
trade done, even with such comparatively insignificant colonies as our
South African possessions, amounts to a value of many millions of
pounds sterling per annum. Now, as the preachers of the new gospel
that hails from Birmingham and Northampton have frequently told us,
trade is the life-blood of England, and must be fostered at any price. It
is therefore surprising that, looking on them in the light of a
commercial speculation, in which aspect (saith the preacher) they are
alone worthy of notice, a keener interest is not taken in the well-being
and development of the Colonies. We have only to reflect to see how
great are the advantages that the Mother Country derives from the
possession of her Colonial Empire; including, as they do, a home for
her surplus children, a vast and varied market for her productions, and a

wealth of old-fashioned loyalty and deep attachment to the Old
Country--"home," as it is always called--which, even if it is out of date,
might prove useful on emergency. It seems therefore, almost a pity that
some Right Honourable Gentlemen and