[Footnote 1: The financial resources of the country at that time
amounted to 12s. 6d.]
[Footnote 2: Quoted from Parliamentary Blue Book.]
[Footnote 3: Report made on the spot by Mr. Shepstone (not Sir
Theophilus Shepstone), Secretary for Native Affairs.]
[Footnote 4: The name of that official was held back from publication at
the time, as if his act were known by the Boers, it was believed it
might have cost the man his life.]