r seen in the Mansion House a larger or more enthusiastic
meeting, and I believe that the feeling which animates this meeting is
animating the whole country. Any course of action taken by Her Majesty's
Ministers towards the Transvaal will be very closely watched. I myself
am for peace, but I am also for that which maintains peace, viz., a firm
and decided policy."

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The poor Chief, Mankoroane, having heard that the Transvaal Delegates
would discuss questions of vital importance to his people, left
Bechuanaland and went as far as Cape Town on his way to England to
represent his case there. Lord Derby, however, sent him word that he
could not be admitted to the Conference in London, where the ownership
of his own country was to be discussed. Mankoroane then begged Mr.
Mackenzie to be his representative, but was again told that neither
personally nor by representative could he be recognised at the
Conference in Downing Street, but that any remarks which Mr. Mackenzie
might make on his behalf would receive the attention of Government.
(Blue Book 3841, 92.)

The first and great question which the Transvaal Delegates desired to
settle in their own interests was that of the Western boundary line,
amended by themselves, which was represented on a map. They were
informed that their amended treaty was "neither in form nor in substance
such as Her Majesty's Government could adopt," there being "certain
Chiefs who had objected, on behalf of their people, to be included in
the Transvaal, and there being a strong feeling in London in favour of
the independence of these natives, or (if they, the natives, desired it)
of their coming under British rule." There was now brought before the
delegates a map showing the addition of land which was eventually
granted to the Transvaal, but the delegates would not agree to any such
arrangement. Her Majesty's Government were giving away to them some
2,600 square miles of native territory, concerning which there was no
clear evidence that its owners wished to be joined to the Transvaal. But
this was nothing to the Transvaal demand, as shown by a map which they
put in, and which included an _additional_ block of 4,000 square miles.
Not finding agreement with the Government possible, the delegates then
turned from that position, and took up the question of the remission of
the debt which the Transvaal owed to England, saying that the wishes of
the native ch