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Publisher: Martes
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE WAY TO THE BOER COUNTRY
I
mmediately after war was declared between Great Britain and the Boers
of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, the two South African re-
publics became ostracised, in a great measure, from the rest of the civilised
world. The cables and the great ocean steamship lines, which connected
South Africa with Europe and America, were owned by British companies,
and naturally they were employed by the British Government for its own
purposes. Nothing which might in any way benefit the Boers was allowed
to pass over these lines and, so far as it was possible, the British Government
attempted to isolate the republics so that the outside world could have no
communication of any sort with them. With the exception of a small strip
of coast-land on the Indian ocean, the two republics were completely sur-
rounded by British territory, and consequently it was not a difficult matter
for the great Empire to curtail the liberties of the Boers to as great an extent
as it was pleasing to the men who conducted the campaign. The small strip
of coast-land, however, was the property of a neutral nation, and, therefore,
could not be used for British purposes of stifling the Boer countries, but the
nation which rules the waves exhausted every means to make the Boers'
3 HOWARD CLEMENS HILLEGAS
air-hole as small as possible by placing a number of warships outside the en-
trance of Delagoa Bay, and by establishing a blockade of the port of Lorenzo
Marques.
Lorenzo Marques, in itself, was valueless to the Boers, for it had always been
nothing more than a vampire feeding upon the Transvaal, but as an outlet
to the sea and as a haven for foreign ships bearing men, arms, and encourage-
ment it was invaluable. In the hands of the Boers Delagoa Bay would have
been worse than useless, for the warships could have taken possession of it
and sealed it tightly on the first day of the war, but as a Portuguese possession
it was the only friend that the Boers were able to find during their long pe-
riod of need. Without it, the Boers would have been unable to hold any in-
tercourse with foreign countries, no envoys could have been despatched, no
volunteers could have entered the country, and they would have been igno-
rant of the opinion of the world-a factor in the brave resistance against their
enemy which was by no means infinitesimal. Delagoa Bay was the Boers' one
window through which they could look at the world, and through which
the world could watch the brave struggle of the farmer-citizens of the veld-
republics.
The Portuguese authorities at Delagoa Bay long ago established a reputation
for adroitness in extracting revenues whenever and wherever it was possible
to find a stranger within their gates, but the war afforded them such excel-
lent opportunities as they had never enjoyed before. Being the gate of the
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