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46. Official reports of the battle by Pretorius and his secretary, South African
Archival Record's: Notule van die Natalse Volksraad, 1838-45, ed. J.H. Breyten-
bach (Cape Town, n.d. [ca. 1958]), 270-73, 282-85, 290, 293-94, with inaccu-
rate translations
in Bird, Annals of Natal,
1:453-58.
Critique in Leonard
Thompson, The Political Mythology
of Apartheid (New Haven and London,
1985), 144-54·
47. The emigrants considered they spoke Dutch. In fact, their spoken language
was already closer to modern Afrikaans.
48. A.1- du Plessis, "Die Republiek Natalia," in Archives YearBook for South
African History (1942): I; Walker, Great Trek, 2.06-33.
49. Du Plessis, "Republiek Natalia" ;J.A.I. Agar-Hamilton, The Native Policy
of the Voortrekkers, 1836-1858
(Cape Town, 1928).
50. On British policy toward the emigrants, see Galbraith, Reluctant Empire,
and w.P. Morrell, British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peeland Russell (Oxford,
1930).
51. Bird, 2:146.
52. F. 1.Potgieter, "Die vestiging van die Blanke in Transvaal, 1837-66,"
in
Archives YearBook (1958): 2; Roger Wagner, "Zoutpansberg: The Dynamics of a
Hunting Frontier,
1848-67~" ·in Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South
Africa, 313-49.
53. Robert Ross, Adam Kok's Griquas (Cambridge, 1976); William Lye, "The