from the disasters of the Difaqane.v-'
To compound matters, each population suffered internal cleavages. The
Potgieters and the Pretoriuses were at odds with one another and with other
emigrant factions. The western Griqua state of Andries Waterboer was
rivaled by an eastern Griqua state under Adam Kok. Moshoeshoe's king-
dom of Lesotho was struggling to establish control
over the fertile
grasslands north of the Caledon River and to incorporate their Sotho and
Tswana inhabitants.
Conflicts among these peoples were exacerbated by
rivalries among several European missionary societies that were active in
the area and espoused the cause of the leaders they regarded as their clients:
the London Missionary Society, which worked among the Griqua; the
Paris Evangelical Society, which had stations in Moshoeshoe's Lesotho;
and the Wesleyan Missionary Society, active among Moshoeshoe's African
rivals.I"
Great Britain gradually got sucked into the area because of initiatives
taken by a succession of Cape colonial governors who hoped to stabilize
the northern frontier of the colony by establishing client states. In 1834,
Governor Sir Benjamin D'Urban had made a treaty with the West Griqua
chief, Andries Waterboer. In 1843, Governor Sir George Napier made