CHAPTER II.

The Dutch and the Natives.

The Early Dutch Character--Contempt for Coloured Races--The Commencement of Slavery, Its Nature and Practices--The Wandering Native Tribes Learn to Hate the Dutchman--English and Dutch Views in Antagonism--The Missionary Interferes--Unwise Action in Some Cases--Policy of Dr. Philip--Dutch Hostility to England Increased by Dislike of Mission Work and Antagonism to Slavery--Missionary Influence upon the Latter--The Dutch and the Kaffir Wars--Hardships of the Settlers--Rise of the Zulu Power under Tshaka--The Matabele and Moselkatze--Moshesh and the Basutos--A Second Period in the South African Problem Begins