ions. A resolution was
passed (June 11, 1875) stating that any scheme in favour of
confederation must in its opinion originate within South Africa itself.
James Anthony Froude, the distinguished historian, was sent out by Lord
Carnarvon to further his policy in South Africa. As a diplomatist and a
representative of the British government, the general opinion in South
Africa was that Froude was not a success, and he entirely failed to
induce the colonists to adopt Lord Carnarvon's views. In 1876,
Fingoland, the Idutywa reserve, and Noman's-land, tracts of country on
the Kaffir frontier, were annexed by Great Britain, on the understanding
that the Cape government should provide for their government. Lord
Carnarvon, still bent on confederation, now appointed Sir Bartle Frere
governor of Cape Colony and high commissioner of South Africa.

Frere had no sooner taken office as high commissioner than he found
himself confronted with serious native troubles in Zululand and on the
Kaffir frontier of Cape Colony. In 1877 there occurred an outbreak on
the part of the Galekas and the Gaikas. A considerable force of imperial
and colonial troops was employed to put down this rising, and the war
was subsequently known as the Ninth Kaffir war. It was in this war that
the famous Kaffir chief, Sandili, lost his life. At its conclusion the
Transkei, the territory of the Galeka tribe, under Kreli, was annexed by
the British. In the meantime Lord Carnarvon had resigned his position in
the British cabinet, and the scheme for confederation which he had been
pushing forward was abandoned. As a matter of fact, at that time Cape
Colony was too fully occupied with native troubles to take into
consideration very seriously so great a question as confederation. A
wave of feeling spread amongst the different Kaffir tribes on the
colonial frontier, and after the Gaika-Galeka War there followed in 1879
a rising in Basutoland under Moirosi, whose cattle-raiding had for some
time past caused considerable trouble. His stronghold was taken after
very severe fighting by a colonial force, but, their defeat
notwithstanding, the Basutos remained in a restless and aggressive
condition for several years. In 1880 the colonial authorities
endeavoured to extend to Basutoland the Peace Preservation Act of 1878,
under which a general disarmament of the Basutos was attempted. Further
fighting followed on this proclamation, which was by no means
successful, and although