Frontiers The Epic Of South Africas Creation And The Tragedy Of The Xhosa People – Noel Mostert

in search of elephants to shoot and land to graze; the Xhosa and other black peoples learning to mistrust white promises, and the first small-scale wars over stolen cattle or petty insults; the British seizing the Cape as a strategic base, and then finding themselves with an unmanageable—and unwanted- colony on their hands. We witness the arrival of the missionaries, borne on a tide of goodwill, only to become entangled in politics; the successive colonial governors dispatched from London, veterans almost to a man of the campaigns against Napoleon and confident at first—in their use of force; and the soldiers themselves, With 32 pages of photographs and 5 rru ilk ‘/it- 3 1111 368 1182 DATE DUE RFP 1 6 199Z JAN 1 g 79gi FEB i) 1993 ” :ka JUN 1 19% i Oct 2 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/frontiersepicofsOOmost by the same author SUPERSHIP FRONTIERS FRONTIERS The Epic of South Africa’s Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People Noel Mostert **9 7 Alfred A.

Knopf New York THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. Copyright © 1992 by Storights Uitgeversmaatschappij BV. All rights reserved under international and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New \brk. Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mostert, Noel. Frontiers: the epic of South Africa’s creation and the tragedy of the Xhosa people / Noel Mostert.— 1st ed. p. cm. isbn 0-679-40136-9 I. Xhosa (African people)—History— 19th century. 2. Xhosa (African people)—Wars. 3. Xhosa (African people)—Social conditions. 4. South Africa—History— 19th century. 5. South Africa—Politics and government. I. Title. DT1768.X57M67 1992 968.04—DC20 91-52857 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America First American Edition To my sister, Stella, for her support and her courage Contents Maps ix Genealogical Table xiv Preface xv Prologue xxi Part One ‘Gold, Prester John and the Cape’ i ‘Where is it sailing to?’

7 2 ‘An astounding spectacle in the heavy silence of a deserted land’ 40 3 ‘The terribly wide sea’ 82 4 ‘What else can follow but ceaseless alarms and disturbances?’ 105 Part Two The Crucible 5 ‘A sort of demi-savages’ 153 6 ‘Milk in baskets!’

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