peace was declared in the country in December
1882, the colonial authorities were very glad in 1884 to be relieved of
the administration of a country which had already cost them L3,000,000.
The imperial government then took over Basutoland as a crown colony, on
the understanding that Cape Colony should contribute for administrative
purposes L18,000 annually. In 1880, Sir Bartle Frere, who by his
energetic and statesmanlike attitude on the relations with the native
states, as well as on all other questions, had won the esteem and regard
of loyal South African colonists, was recalled by the 1st earl of
Kimberley, the liberal secretary of state for the colonies, and was
succeeded by Sir Hercules Robinson. Griqualand West, which included the
diamond fields, was now incorporated as a portion of Cape Colony.

_Origin of the Afrikander Bond._--The Boer War of 1881, with its
disastrous termination, naturally reacted throughout South Africa; and
as one of the most important results, in the year 1882 the first
Afrikander Bond congress was held at Graaff Reinet. The organization of
the Bond developed into one embracing the Transvaal, the Orange Free
State and Cape Colony. Each country had a provincial committee with
district committees, and branches were distributed throughout the whole
of South Africa. At a later date the Bond in the Cape Colony dissociated
itself from its Republican branches. The general lines of policy which
this organization endeavoured to promote may best be gathered from _De
Patriot_, a paper published in the colony, and an avowed supporter of
the organization. The following extracts from articles published in 1882
will illustrate, better than anything else, the ambition entertained by
some of the promoters of this remarkable organization.

"The Afrikander Bond has for its object the establishment of a South
African nationality by spreading a true love for what is really our
fatherland. No better time could be found for establishing the Bond
than the present, when the consciousness of nationality has been
thoroughly aroused by the Transvaal war." ... "The British government
keep on talking about a confederation under the British flag, but that
will never be brought about. They can be quite certain of that. There
is just one obstacle in the way of confederation, and that is the
British flag. Let them remove that, and in less than a year the
confederation would be established under the Fre