poem "to all the heroes and heroines of the African continent and all her children
who shall make her name great."
40. C. F.J.Muller, "The Period of the Great Trek, 1834-1854,"
in Five Hun-
dred Years:A History of South Africa, ed. C. F.J.Muller (Pretoria and Cape Town,
1969), 122-56;
Leonard Thompson in Oxford History of South Africa, 1:352-
64,4°5-34;
Eric A. Walker, The Great Trek (London, 1938).
4 1 • G. W. Eybers, Select Constitutional Documents Illustrating South African
History, I795-:"I9IO (London, 1918), 144-45.
42. Bird, Annals of Natal, 1:459.
43. Rasmussen, Migrant Kingdom.
44. Walker, Trek, 133-47.
45. Ibid., 147- 65. Francis Owen, an Anglican missionary, was at Dingane's
headquarters when the Retief party was massacred (The Diary of the Rev. Francis
Owen, ed. G. Cory [Cape Town, 1926]). It is possible that no such treaty existed.
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