Author: George McCall Theal

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9781331917472

Excerpt from Records of the Cape Colony, Vol. 24: From November to the End of December 1825, Copied for the Cape Government, From the Manuscript Documents in the Public Record Office, London My Lord, - On receipt of your Lordship's Instructions that we should investigate the complaints that had been preferred to your Lordship in the statements of Mr. Thomas Pringle, we did not delay to address a letter to Mr. Pringle, who has resided on the Frontier during the present year, and to intimate our readiness to enter upon such an inquiry; and in proceeding to report the result of the information that we have acquired upon the several points upon which he has urged his claim to compensation, we will consider them in the order in which they are discussed in his statement. Your Lordship is already informed that Mr. Pringle emigrated to this Colony in the year 1820, as the Head of a Party of Scotch Agriculturists, who were located at a distant and disturbed part of the Frontier on the Baviaan's River in the District of Graaff Reinet. He appears at first to have entertained other views in settling at the Cape, but to have relinquished them for a time, and to have accompanied his Party to that distant part of the Colony, where his intelligence and industry were conspicuously directed to the encouragement of his Settlers in surmounting the difficulties of their situation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.