1843 Feb 10. Dr John Philip from Cape Town to Buxton, announcing that a missionary called Williams was bringing back some South African birds to …
1843; Gale Group;
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Commercial Advertiser pp 355-57 1843 Feb 10. Dr John Philip from Cape Town to Buxton, announcing that a missionary called Williams was bringing back some South African birds to England and he had asked him to give Buxton's family the duplicate birds he had offered him, saying that he hoped Anna Gurney and Priscilla Johnston would have some specimens. Philip had brought a lion's skin from the interior which he hoped Buxton would accept. He trusts Buxton had received the papers he had sent him from time to time about the Boers beyond the Colony and mentions an extract from one of Stock- enstrom's letters which he was sending about the feeling in Griqualand. He reports that Captain Hare had acted very well but that now a more permanent arrangement was necessary for their northern frontier to Port Natal and this could only be achieved by the home Government. He recalls the three campaigns in which Buxton had formerly assisted him; the emancipation of the Hottentots, the prevention of the Vagrancy Acts and the preservation of the Kaffirs. He now asks for his help to preserve the coloured people between the Orange River and the Portuguese territories and prays that the fate of the natives in Newfoundland and Van Dieman's land would not be theirs; so far this had, he was thankful to say, been prevented. He claims that had Buxton travelled with him recently around the churches in South Africa he would have thanked God that he had been involved in working for them. He cites the of February 4 as providing an example of what the Boers had been doing on a large scale in Natal and the adjoining country for years and of what could be expected from them in the future if they were not checked. He claims that the majority were bent on the destruction of the old and the slavery of the young, though there were a few good men among them. Their hatred of the English Government was founded on the restraints imposed on them by it and they would have hated equally a Dutch Government doing the same thing. He ends with messages to Lady Buxton and the family. (Copy.)
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