fairs.

"From this chronology there are four points that stand out in
relief:--

"1. That the Basuto people, who date back generations, made
treaties with the British Government, which treaties are equally
binding, whether between two powerful states, or between a
powerful state and a weak one.

"2. That, in defiance of the treaties, the Basutos lost land.

"3. That, in defiance of the treaties, the Basutos, without being
consulted or having their rights safeguarded, were handed over to
another power--the Colonial Government.

"4. That that other power proceeded to enact their disarmament, a
process which could only be carried out with a servile race, like
the Hindoos of the plains of India, and which any one of
understanding must see would be resisted to the utmost by any
people worth the name; the more so in the case of the Basutos,
who realised the constant contraction of their frontiers in
defiance of the treaties made with the British Government, and
who could not possibly avoid the conclusion that this disarmament
was only a prelude to their extinction.

"The necessary and inevitable result of the four deductions was
that the Basutos resisted, and remain passively resisting to this
day.

"The fault lay in the British Government not having consulted the
Basutos, their co-treaty power, when they handed them over to the
Colonial Government. They should have called together a national
assembly of the Basuto people, in which the terms of the transfer
could have been quietly arranged, and this I consider is the root
of all the troubles, and expenses, and miseries which have sprung
up; and therefore, as it is always best to go to the root of any
malady, I think it would be as well to let bygones be bygones,
and to commence afresh by calling together by proclamation a
Pitso of the whole tribe, in order to discuss the best means of
sooner securing the settlement of the country. I think that some
such proclamation should be issued. By this Pitso we would know
the exact position of affairs, and the real point in which the
Basutos are injured or considered themselves to be injured.

"To those who wish for the total abandonment of Basutoland, this
course must be palatable; to those who wish the Basutos well, and
desire not to