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have mentioned. He was well known both to the Boers and to the Usutu leaders, and with both parties he would have conferred without restraint. Part of his mission would have been to visit the leaders of the Usutu party and to put the situa- tion in all its reality before them. Mr. Rudolph was acquainted with my views, and to a great extent they coincided with his own.
There can be no doubt that the people of Zulu- land at large would be only too rejoiced to come under our rule. With the leaders of the Usutu party, however, the case would probably be very different. They would not easily be persuaded of the wisdom of any course that might appear to lie against their personal interests. Besides the diffi- culty arising from their misapprehension of the situation, and from their being misled by bad advice, there would be the greater difficulty arising from their natural reluctance to do anything that would injure their privileges and their authority.
This latter difficulty I should have proposed to meet by providing for the compensation of the principal Zulu chiefs for the loss of privileges that would result from the country coming under our rule; and the provision I should have proposed to make would have been in the form of annual grants apportioned according to their rank and position, and payable out of the revenues of the country. I should have proposed to give similar grants to Usibebu, to Chief John Dunn and Hlubi, and to the other remaining appointed chiefs. The total amount of all these grants I calculated would be under £4,000 a year. They would be payable only during the life-time of the persons in whose favour they were made and their payment would be subject to conditions of good behaviour, and they would be payable, as I say, out of the revenues of all the Zulu country coming under our authority, including, of course, the Reserve Territory. That, I believe, would be an arrangement that would satisfy the just rights of the Zulu chiefs. The establishment of our rule would satisfy the rights of the Zulu people at large.
24. In the event of the extension of our autho- rity in this way over the remainder of the Zulu country, whether inclusive of or exclusive of that portion which by agreement would remain to the Boer farmers, a separate administration would at first be required, at the head of which would be a Resident Commissioner, with sub-commissioners or magistrates under him; and it would be advisable to establish a more regular form of government, with powers to pass laws and to administer justice, than has been established hitherto in the Reserve Territory, to which territory similar powers should be extended. A police force should also be formed similar to that which has been established with such success in the Reserve Territory.
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