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African. No. 312.
Zululand.
SEPARATE MEMORANDUM.
With reference to my memorandum of this date, in which I have submitted certain suggestions as to the course to be taken by us in dealing with the question of Central Zululand, I may observe that there need be no risk incurred in the course proposed by me: for if the Boers should be willing to come to an understanding with us there would, necessarily, be no risk incurred; and if they should prove unwilling to come to an under- standing, Her Majesty's Government would have placed their views on record, and would be able to reserve their rights and to postpone intervention until it is convenient to them to exercise thos rights. Such a conclusion would put the Boers in a false position, because they would always have over them the danger of an interference by Her Majesty's Government, whose proposals to consider the situation they had rejected, and whose dissent from their claims would remain on record.
14th January, 1886.
H. BULWER.
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