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Routledge Library Editions

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THE LAST TREK

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ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Routledge Library Editions
Anthropology and Ethnography

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AFRICA
In 26 Volumes

I	Spirit Mediumship and Society in Africa	Beattie & Middleton
II	Custom & Politics in Urban Africa	Cohen
III	Urban Ethnicity	Cohen
IV	Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa	Gluckman
V	Death, Property and the Ancestors	Goody
VI	The Family Estate in Africa	Gray & Gulliver
VII	Tradition and Transition in East Africa	Gulliver
VIII	The Human Factor in Changing Africa	Herskovits
IX	African Ecology and Human Evolution	Howell & Bourlire
X	The Nandi of Kenya	Huntingford
XI	Fields of Change among the Iteso of Kenya	Karp
XII	The Niger Journal of Richard and John Lander	Hallett
XIII	Defeating Mau Mau	Leakey
XIV	Mau Mau and the Kikuyu	Leakey
XV	Urbanization as a Social Process	Little
XVI	Family and Social Change in an African City	Marris
XVII	Widows and their Families	Marris
XVIII	Tribes without Rulers	Middleton & Tait
XIX	Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward	Parkin
XX	The Last Trek	Patterson
XXI	Women of Tropical Africa	Paulme
XXII	Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe	Richards
XXIII	Leopards and Leaders	Ruel
XXIV	Western Civilization and the Natives of South Africa	Schapera
XXV	East African Societies	Shorter
XXVI	The Samburu	Spencer

First published in 1957

Reprinted in 2004 by
Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Transferred to Digital Printing 2006

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

1957 Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

The Last Trek
ISBN 978-0-415-32999-6
ISBN 978-1-136-53276-4 (epub)

Miniset: Africa

Series: Routledge Library Editions Anthropology and Ethnography

Printed and bound by CPI Antony Rowe, Eastbourne

THE LAST TREK

A Study of the Boer People
and the Afrikaner Nation

by

SHEILA PATTERSON

LONDON
ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD.

First published in 1957
by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
Broadway House
68-74 Carter Lane
London, E.C.4.

Only half a century ago, the Boers were the heroes of Europe and Americathe gallant little nation that went down before a mighty empire. Today, the greater part of the outside world regards the vocal majority of their descendants, the Nationalist Afrikaners, as the epitome of violence, race prejudice and Herrenvolkism.

In this study I have tried, as objectively as may be, to trace the development of Boer into Afrikaner, of oppressed nationhood into oppressive nationalism, and to see the reality behind the conventional stereotypes. Out of the medley of emotions, sympathy, exasperation, admiration and despair, that any contemplation of this historical development must evoke, came this book. If it gives non-Afrikaners sufficient material for a revision of their ideas, and provokes sufficient irritation amongst Nationalist Afrikaners to induce them to write more about themselves for outside consumption, it will have served its purpose.

It would be quite impossible to list here the scores of people who have given so generously of their time and knowledge during the two years that it took to write this book. I have thanked each one of them separately and here repeat my most sincere appreciation. I do however owe a particular debt of gratitude to Mr. Adrian Roberts, lately Union High Commissioner in Canada, for his invaluable bibliography, and to Professor Arthur Keppel-Jones, of the University of Natal, Dr. C. H. V. Sutherland, of Christ Church, Oxford, and Mr. Frans Deelman, for their valuable criticisms and factual corrections of various sections of the draft manuscript. Nobody but myself is however to be held responsible for any opinions or conclusions contained in this study.

I should also like to express my appreciation of the efficiency and courtesy with which the Union Bureau of Census and Statistics, the Provincial Administrations and the main Afrikaans-speaking voluntary associations have responded to requests for information, and to thank Mrs. Rene Nielsen for typing the great bulk of the first and second drafts of the manuscript. Finally, I am indebted to the Proprietors, Investors Intelligence, Ltd., Johannesburg, for permission to make use of the material contained in their monthly news-digest, African X-Ray Report.

Johannesburg and London

SHEILA PATTERSON

September, 1956

Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, thus saith the Lord

(2 Corinthians, 6: v. 17)

The importance of an historical event lies, not so much in the extent of its influence upon contemporary thought and action, as upon its propaganda value for a later generation

(Professor Vincent Harlow)

T HE birth-year of the Boer or Afrikaner nation was in 1657. In this year the Dutch East India Company, interested, as always, in penny-pinching, decided that a more economical method must be found of provisioning its Indies-bound ships at the Cape entrepot, which had been set up five years earlier. The local Hottentots were not an agricultural people, and had proved demanding and capricious when pressed for a regular supply of cattle.

Accordingly, nine free burgers, all of Dutch or German origin, were settled in the Liesbeeck valley. The terms of settle-ment were sufficiently onerous to lay the foundations of subsequent strife between officialdom and the colonists.

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