ment-resented
what it construed as imperial interference. In the Orange
Free State, the voortrekker
spirit had been reinforced by the well-grounded
belief that Britain had manipulated
the arbitration
process that had led to
including the Kimberley diamond fields in Griqualand
West. In the Trans-
vaal, Afrikaner
morale was low because of the weakness of the economy
and the unpopularity
of the president, Thomas Francois Burgers. When he
interviewed Burgers in London, Carnarvon
nevertheless deduced that he
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