(an interdenominational
Protestant
organization)
were espousing
the
cause of the Khoikhoi and the Xhosa.t" In Britain, military, commercial,
and evangelical interests interpreted
these events in different ways and
brought conflicting pressures to bear on the bureaucrats and politicians
responsible.v!
Until the r850s, when steam began to replace sail, ships took about
three months each way between England and Cape Town, and the Cape
was not connected with London by submarine cable until r87o.42 Thus,
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