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Whence comes the word, and what does it signify? When the Cape-as the Cape Colony is usually called-was a dependency of the East India Company of the Netherlands. (which it was for two hundred years and more), the Hollanders. of Europe called the Hollanders of South Africa Afrikaners. In the colony, however, appeared at an early period the irregular form Afrikaander, with the letter a repeated, which repetition signified that the first a must be separated in pronunciation from the following n. This word seems to have been invented by the first colonists, as a term of contempt for the colored natives who had adopted the Dutch language. This doubling of the letter recalls a similar duplication in the word nigger, derived by the English from negro. After the British had conquered the country, they gave the name Afrikanders to those inhabitants who had during the Dutch rule been called Afrikaners. When, in 1875, there began a nationalist awakening at the Cape, those of Dutch descent living there objected to being called Afrikanders, considering it a mark of disrespect. Mr. du Toit, pastor of a church at Paarl in the suburbs of Capetown, organized the 'Society of True Africans," whom he called Afrikaners, and subsequently in 1879, the “League of the Africans” (Afrikaner Bond). This name, evidently, had no chance of living. 249 248 249 Religious and Civil Marriages... 249 MISCELLANEOUS : The Accident on the New York The American-Australian Cable 249 249 The Hospice on the Great St. 248 248 A Foretaste of the Glories of the World's Fair. ............. INDEX TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE............ 251 BOOKS OF THE WEEK..... 250 256 250 252 Revue des Deux Mondes, Paris, December 1. OR our curiosity, awakened by recent events, South Africa has the attraction of a new chess-board upon which European diplomacy is playing a game. With the big pieces on the board, England and Germany, we are well acquainted. That, however, is nor sufficient, for it is not the kings who fight in chess, neither do they attack, until all the other pieces are out of the way-the queens, the rooks, the knights, the bishops, and the pawns. In the contest going on in South Africa, the queens are called the Cape Colony and the Republic of the Transvaal. We cannot understand the course of these African queens, especially that of the Cape Colony, any more than the elephant in the Hindoo game of chess, unless we Hollanders of South Africa are no more Africans than the Franco-Algerians. Moreover, if the only true "Afrikaners' were of Holland descent, all of any other descent might be considered foreigners. These considerations worked a change of ideas, and when the National party began to grow, it took the old despised name of Afrikaanders, and the “League " became the Afrikaander Bond. Thus, in the whirligig of time, what was for more than two centuries a term of reproach is now a title of honor. I call Afrikanderism the political doctrine of the Afrikander League, taking leave to drop what is for Frenchmen and Englishmen the superfluous a, This political doctrine is South African unity. This unity, however, is not an easy thing to bring about, considering that the expression, South Africa, is a trifle vague, and that the elements of the situation are heterogeneous. What the Nationalist party understands by South Africa comprises two British possessions, the Cape and Natal, two Republics, the Free State of Orange and the Transvaal, divers protectorates and finally-what complicates the problem -a Portugese coast and a German coast. How, it is urged, can the States which intend to remain independent unite with English colonies, of which the one, Natal, does not, like the Cape, enjoy perfect administrative autonomy, although it possesses a Parliament ? One of two things will have to take place. Either the republics must sacrifice some attributes of sovereignty in order to form a federation system like the Dominion of Canada, or the colonies must become independent States. There is no other alternative. To bring about a confederation between the republics and the colonies, and to have this confederation fly the British flag, was the idea of Lord Beaconsfield more than fifteen years ago. This policy had no success. The only result of attempting to carry it out was to prove that the "boers" of the Cape and the Transvaal sympathized strongly with their cousins further north in Africa. The question is more difficult than the like question in Canada, because there no independent States had to be dealt with, |