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See also:SOUTH See also:AFRICA and CAPE See also:COLONY). Here it is only necessary
to See also:state that the Voortrekkers were animated by an intense
See also:desire to be altogether rid of See also:British See also:control, and to be allowed
to set up See also:independent communities and govern the natives
in such See also:fashion as they saw See also:fit. The first party to See also:cross the
See also:Vaal consisted of 98 persons under the leadership of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis
Trichard and See also:Jan See also:van Rensburg. They See also:left Cape Colony in
1835 and trekked to the See also:Zoutpansberg. Here Rensburg's party
separated from the others, but were soon afterwards murdered
by natives.' Trichard's party determined to examine the
See also:country between the Zoutpansberg and Delagoa See also:Bay. See also:Fever
carried off several of their number, and it was not until 1838
that the survivors reached the See also:coast. Eventually they See also:pro-
ceeded by See also:boat to See also:Natal. Meantime, in 1836, another party
of farmers under Andries Hendrik See also:Potgieter had established
their headquarters on the See also:banks of the See also:Vet See also:river. Potgieter
and some companions followed the trail of Trichard's party as
far as the Zoutpansberg, where they were shown
Potgieter. See also:gold workings by the natives and saw rings of
gold made by native workmen. They also ascertained that a
See also:trade between the See also:Kaffirs and the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay
already existed. On returning to the Vet, Potgieter learned that
a See also:hunting party of Boers which had crossed the Vaal had been
attacked by the See also:Matabele, who had also killed See also:Boer See also:women and
See also:children. This See also:act led to See also:reprisals, and on the 17th of See also:January
1837 a Boer See also:commando surprised Mosilikatze's encampment at
Mosega, inflicting heavy loss on the Matabele without themselves
' Two small children were spared and brought up as Kaffirs. In 1867 they were given over to the Boer See also:government by the Swazis, who had acquired them from their captors.
End of Article: SOUTH AFRICA
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