[27] Although there is some reason to think that if Sir T. Shepstone had waited a few weeks or months, the Boers would have been driven by their difficulties to ask to be annexed.
[29] A description of Majuba Hill will be found in [Chapter XVIII].
[30] The Convention of 1881 will be found in the Appendix to this volume.
[31] Sir B. Frere reported after meeting the leaders of the discontented Boers in April, 1879, that the agitation, though more serious than he supposed, was largely "sentimental," and that the quieter people were being coerced by the more violent into opposition.
[32] This Convention will be found in the Appendix to this volume.
[33] Arguments on this question may be found in a Parliamentary paper.
[34] See further as to this rising some remarks in [Chapter XV].
[35] See [Chapter XVIII.] for an account of these beds.
[36] The salient facts may be found in the evidence taken by the committee of inquiry appointed by the Cape Assembly in 1896. The much more copious evidence taken by a Select Committee of the British House of Commons in 1897 adds comparatively little of importance to what the Cape Committee had ascertained.