... which the Dutch Presidents of pre -war days, with the British suzerainty over their heads, did not dare enforce against the Native people then under them. With the formation of the Union, the ... homes in spite of the law, neither the white farmer nor the native tenant being aware of the serious penalties they were exposed to by their verbal contracts. In justice to the Government, it ... allies of the Boers, whom they assisted to drive the Basutos from this habitable and arable part of their land; that with their own rations, their own horses, their own rifles, and often their...