Stories of the World

Stories of the World do all they could to show their love and respect for their dead teacher. The body was brought to England and buried in Westminster Abbey. Stanley went out to Africa the next year and discovered the Edward Nyanza: ‘Nyanza’ is the African name for ‘lake.’ He went right across the centre of the continent.

It was the travels of these brave men that made the people of Europe begin to wish to take the land of Africa for themselves. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Great Britain got Cape Colony by the Peace of Paris. It was a strange people the British had to rule there. The Dutch settlers of the seventeenth century had married with French Huguenots, who came later, and these independent and rather hard men were jealous of the English settlers who now flocked to South Africa.

They hated the English for putting an end to slavery and the slave trade, and in 1835 a great number of them moved together, or ‘trekked,’ as they say in Africa, northwards to Natal, where they founded a republic.

But not many years later Natal was made a British colony, and many pieces of land where the natives were rebellious were added to Cape Colony. Others of the Dutch, or ‘Boers,’ as they were called, when they settled in Africa, founded the Orange Free State, east of Natal. Great Britain took that in 1848, but gave it back to the Boers to rule, six years later. Other Boers settled north of the Orange Free State and founded the Transvaal Republic; but they fought so much with the natives that Great Britain took it from them in 1877. This did not help the English very much for they had now to struggle with the natives. The warlike Zulus, a very savage tribe, rose under their King Cetchwayo, and after defeating the English in one terrible 536