...alike to travellers and to civilisation, and Livingstone well described the situation when he wrote: " The Boers resolved to shut up the interior, and I determined to open the country." Livingstone was then living with the Bechuana chief, Sechele, who thus wrote to Dr. Moffat...

...outrage, he wrote, only set him entirely free to pursue the greater object on which he had set his mind. " The Boers resolved to shut up the interior, and I determined to open up the country. We shall see who have been most successful in resolution, they or I." The retrocession of the Transvaal...

...outrage, he wrote, only set him entirely free to pursue the greater object on which he had set his mind. "The Boers resolved to shut up the interior, and I determined to open up the country. We shall see who have been most successful in resolution, they or I." The retrocession of the Transvaal...

...Livingstone's own property was destroyed ; he was brought up for trial and banished from the country. Saying, " The Boers resolved to shut up the interior, and I determined to open the country ; we shall see who has succeeded — they or I," he pushed north, discovered Lake Ngami,...

...Ngami, not far short of the Zambesi ; and long before these Livingstone had boasted — not idly : " The Boers resolved to shut up the interior and I determined to open the country ; and we shall see who have been most successful in resolution, they or I." Rhodes had...

...especially give them firearms. Hear our traveller's decision about the matter, as far as he is concerned: "The Boers resolved to shut up the interior, and I determined to open the country; and we shall see who have been most successful in resolution, they or I."— Travels,...