either useless or useful, as are the Maoris in New Zealand and the Indians in North America. Such as they are we have got to bring them into order, and to rule them and teach them to earn their bread,—a duty which has not fallen upon us in any other Colony. The population above stated may be divided as follows:—
Estimated Population of European South Africa.
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| Names of Districts. | White | Coloured | Total. |
| | persons.| persons. | |
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|Orange Free State | 30,000 | 15,000 | 45,000 |
|Transkeian districts | — | 501,000 | 501,000 |
|The Cape Colony | 235,000 | 485,000 | 720,000 |
|Native districts belonging }| | | |
| to the Cape Colony }| — | 335,000 | 335,000 |
|The Diamond Fields | 15,000 | 30,000 | 45,000 |
|Natal | 20,000 | 320,000 | 340,000 |
|Transvaal | 40,000 | 250,000 | 290,000 |
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| Total | 340,000 |1,936,000 |2,276,000 |
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I must first remark in reference to this table that the district named first,—the one containing by far the smallest number of native inhabitants, called the Orange Free State—is not a British possession nor, as far as I am aware, is it subject to British influences. It is a Dutch Republic, well ruled as regards its white inhabitants, untroubled by the native question and content with its own position. It is manifest, however, that it has succeeded in making the natives understand that they can live better outside its borders, and it has continued by its practice to banish the black man and to rid itself of trouble on that score. My reader if he will refer to the map will see that now, since the annexation of the Transvaal by Great Britain, the Free State is surrounded by British territory,—for Basuto land, which lies to the west
