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should exercise them if we desire to save the situation before it is too late.

10. It will also be necessary to enter into communications with the leaders of the Usutu party, who have appealed to us; but it would probably be well to postpone taking this step until we had first been in communication with the Boers, and ascertained what the prospect was of an agreement with them.

11. In entering upon these communications we should have clearly in view the purposes which it is our object to serve.

What I had desired, before the Boer movement took place, was that the whole Zulu country, and certainly the country as far as the Black Umfolosi River, if there was an objection to go beyond that point, should be brought under British authority and rule. That, I was persuaded, was the only course that would save the people and the country. The object of this extension of British authority and rule would not have been to acquire the country for European colonisation, but to keep it as a native territory for native purposes. The whole Zulu country would have been for the people of Zulu birth both in Zululand and in Natal, whence many would have elected to return to Zululand under our rule; and we should thus, as I believe, have established a well-governed and prosperous native territory, which would have solved not only the Zulu question but the native question in Natal,

The realisation of that idea is beyond our reach now, and it is useless to dwell upon it; but I mention it because it will best serve to show the nature of the purposes which we should still keep

in view.

12. The main objects of our intervention now should be, I think--

(1.) To obtain as great a reduction as circum- stances will permit in the area of land claimed by the Boers under the agreement of August, 1884.

(2.) To save as much of the country as can pos- sibly be saved for native purposes.

(3.) To confine the area to be occupied by the Boers to that part of the country which lies adjacent to the Transvaal, and to prevent a Boer occupation of any part of Zululand down to the

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(4.) To keep a clear way open from Natal to the Amatonga and Swazi countries through purely native territory.

(5.) To bring the whole Zulu country, including that which will be occupied by Boer farmers and that which will be occupied by natives, under our rule and authority.

(6.) To extend our protectorate beyond Zulu- land over the adjoining Swazi country.

13. These are the objects at which, I submit, we should now aim. I do not say that we shall

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