18. Bushmen - Refined character

QUOTE 1: Notwithstanding their forbidding appearance, they possessed a number of savage virtues, which showed that they were not so utterly worthless as many have delighted in depicting them. Not the least noteworthy of these was their implicit faithfulness in any trust imposed upon them. We have already noticed their loyalty to their chiefs, their strong attachment to the place of their birth, their hospitality to strangers, their unselfishness in their division of food, their self-sacrifice and devotion in their attempts to rescue their wives and children from a life of bondage which they abhorred, their unflinching bravery, and their love of freedom.

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Mr. Baines in his description of them added that he had not a little pleasure in being able to state that the behaviour of the Bushmen who visited them was civil and respectful, and they were not annoyed by the constant attempts at theft so common whilst they were travelling through a country occupied by other native tribes.

QUOTE 3: Facts of this kind prove not only the individual honesty of the Bushman thus trusted, but also the general honesty of all those of his race with whom he must have, of necessity, come in contact during the long period of his wanderings

QUOTE 4: This fact illustrates at the same time that these wild Bushmen could not have been the remorseless and bloodthirsty creatures they have been so frequently depictured, seeing that we find them not only in this case, but in numerous other instances, affording an asylum to many fugitives under similar circumstances.

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Between this last place and the Karee mountains these travellers met no more Koranas, but several hordes of Bushmen, some of whom, as their sugar was consumed, supplied them with beautiful honey. The travellers thus gained their confidence and some of them followed the waggons, a fact which showed that even at that time, when they were most maligned, a fair reward would secure the willing services of these wild huntsmen.

QUOTE 6: It is worthy of remark, however, that no instance of cannibalism was heard of, either among the Hottentots or the Bushmen, even in their direst extremities.

QUOTE 7: Mr. Campbell, however, who saw much of these Bushmen during the course of his journeys and is certainly no mean authority upon the subject, considers, notwithstanding all the charges brought against them, that these Bushmen, wild as they undoubtedly are, are nevertheless more docile than any of the other native nations, and more grateful for kindness shewn to them.

QUOTE 8: but the honour of having first pleaded the cause of these Bushmen certainly belongs to the Rev. A. Faure, a minister of the Dutch Reformed church, who had long resided on the exposed frontier of Graaff Reinet. His evidence is both valuable and conclusive on the character of these Bushmen for fidelity in any trust imposed upon them. The farmers, he writes, are entirely dependent on the Bushmen for their welfare. Few, if any, have either slaves or Hottentots, consequently they have no means of getting their cattle properly tended without their assistance. Such farmers as possess Bushmen have been in the habit of committing to them the charge of their flocks, and they have proved such faithful shepherds that the farmers have not hesitated to give them some hundreds of ewes and other cattle to sojourn with them beyond the limits of the Colony.

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Most of the high quality attributes and refinement mentioned above can also be listed out in the historical attributes of the native-English of the pristine-English times. However, when the feudal language speakers spread out as a sort of disease in the English hinterlands, how can the native-English stand up to protect their nation and social system? They would not understand what is happening. It is like the fish in the sea being made captive inside nylon nets. In most probability, the fish would not be able to see the nets. The same is the situation of the native-English. Their own native legal systems will weave non-see-able net like strings all around them. Only when suddenly they find themselves entangled in the webs of the legal system would they know its power. The power would be in the hands of the outsiders who would be casting the net across the nation.

Again, there is this to be mentioned. The Bushmen were seen as the lowest of the native-African populations. Yet, when cannibalism is taken into account, the Bushmen seems to be far above that disposition, while many of the higher native populations had no qualms in practising this culinary art.

QUOTE: It was, therefore, in the never-ending war of races which ensued, where all, however much they differed from one another, were against the Bushman, that it merged into one of the fiercest intensity, in which an irrepressible determination was shown, on the one hand, to maintain, at whatever cost, and by every means their untutored minds dictated to them, the lands they considered unquestionably their own ; while, on the other hand, as the old race were stumbling blocks to the coveted possession, an equal determination was exhibited to exterminate, if possible, the last vestige of those who so resolutely opposed their unjustifiable usurpation. The struggle ended, as all such conflicts ever do, in the ultimate triumph of the strongest, while in its course little forbearance or mercy was shown on either side.

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It was like different human populations competing with each other to takeover a forest land. Every one of them would endeavour individually as well as collectively to exterminate living beings who they considered poisonous and hence dangerous, despite the fact that these living beings were the original possessors of the forest land.

QUOTE: while their very enemies acknowledge them to have been, when left to themselves, a merry, cheerful race.

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This might be defining words about the native-English in years to come, they have all been exterminated by the feudal language speaking outsiders who are slowly, and yet steadily encroaching into the far interiors of the English hinterlands.

QUOTE: Their incomprehensible attachment to their original mode of life, their strong love of the wild freedom they had ever possessed, were considered as unquestionable evidence of their unimprovable nature, and the members of the formidable expeditions that were from time to time launched against them seemed impressed with the idea that the cause of humanity would be best served by annihilating a race with such peculiar tendencies

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‘strong love of the wild freedom’ is something that the native-English possess in its most pristine form. This in spite of them having so many restraining conventions, manners, spontaneous politeness &c. Their freedom is encoded in the planar language codes of English. The moment a feudal language speaker perceives these things in someone whom he or she understands to be a subordinate, his or her mind can sparkle with hate and mood for oppression. These are things which the native English cannot understand or foresee. For, they have no information on how the feudal language speakers have maintained their subordinates over the centuries as slaves shackled with mere words and verbal codes. The feudal language speakers would definitely like to annihilate populations which display ‘peculiar tendencies’ connected to planar language communication codes.

QUOTE: This improvement in their condition we shall discover as we proceed was mainly, if not entirely, attributable to the friendly intercourse that had existed for a considerable time between themselves and the Leghoya, the only tribe which ever intruded itself into Bushman territory that from the very commencement of their intercourse attempted to establish just and friendly relations between themselves and the aborigines.

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However, despite all kinds of nefarious details about them, there were people who knew to connect with the quaint refinement of the Bushmen.

QUOTE: The case however was altered when, either to escape the grip of the law or the oppressive restrictions of their own government, or from a desire to live a free and untrammelled life in the wilderness with an unlimited extent of land around them, the colonists began to cross the great mountain ranges in considerable and ever-increasing numbers, carrying their numerous flocks and herds with them, invading the Bokkeveld, seizing the fountains, making permanent settlements, destroying or driving away the game, the Bushmen's means of subsistence, treating the inhabitants, the " zwarte schepsels," with menace and contumely, and reducing all those who fell into their grasp to a condition of abject slavery.

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The Continental European colonialists were not at all a refined group anywhere in the world, I feel. They did not treat the Red Indians in a nice manner in South America. In fact, they trampled over them for more than two centuries, I think. It was the arrival of the native-English that ultimately gave them some respite. However, the negative information that had spread about the White skin-coloured colonialist did affect the native-English also to some extent that the Red Indians did go in for a fight with them. However, ultimately most of them supported the native-English against the rank renegade and super fool George Washington. It may also be mentioned that in the US, which was a nation created upon a framework of native-English settlements in the New World, the Red Indians did get a lot of securities, which were not available in the Continental European colonial areas.

The same sort of issues did take place in Africa also. The Continental Europeans were known to go buying black slaves from the Zanzibar coast and elsewhere. When the British West African Squadron arrived on the Zanzibar and such other coasts, to save the slaves from the slave traders, many of the native black got the impression that they were also slave catchers. This kind of wrong information did lead to many tragic events.

In South Asia also, the Continental Europeans did not create any quality history. They did buy the local slaves and sell them elsewhere including South Africa. However, the lot of the indentured slaves of South Asia definitely got a better deal as slaves in South Africa. In the former case, they were treated something like worms that live on the soil. In the latter case, they were treated like slaves brought for work. Naturally they got better dressing standards, and better living conditions. However, when they were seen in quality areas in a comparative manner, they had a lot of grievances. But then returning them to their native living experiences would have been equivalent to throwing them into a stinking cesspool.

QUOTE: Suffice it here to say the Bushmen were pursued and destroyed with a relentless and almost savage ferocity, clan after clan was annihilated, the men were shot down without mercy, and the surviving women and children were dragged into a state worse than slavery. Sometimes they were destroyed in their caves, and no survivors were left ; all, men, women, and children, perished in a heap ; and men, nominally Christians, boasted, as if they had been engaged in some meritorious act, of the active part they had taken in these scenes of slaughter.

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The only Christians, who were refined, cultured and promoting the Good Samaritan theme were the English Christians. However, the native-English do not have any information that they should not try to get associated with various other global populations that have the Christian tag. For instance, the Christians of South Asian. There are a number of groups here, with various kinds of history behind them. Actually they are not one group, but different population groups, currently speaking the same local language.

Take the case of the Syrian Christians of the south-western part of the Subcontinent. They came from Syria. When they arrived, they had the presence of mind and social information that they need to be above the various slave castes of the place. For this purpose, they entered into a treaty with the local king. As per this treaty they were able to acquire a lot of social powers. See what is mentioned in one of the treaties (around 774 AD) :

Quoted from Malabar Manual written by William Logan:

We have given to Iravi Corttan of Mahodeverpattnam [henceforth to be called Grand Merchant of the Cheraman world (Kerala)], the lordship of Manigramam. We also have given to him (the right of) the feast-cloth(?), house-pillars (or pictured rooms ?), all the, revenue, the curved sword (or dagger), and in (or with) the sword the sovereign merchant-ship, the right of proclamation, the privilege of having forerunners, the five musical instruments, the conch, the light (or torch burning) by day, the spreading cloth, litter, royal umbrella, Vaduca drum (drum of the Telugu’s or of Bhairava?), the gateway with seats and ornamental arches, and the sovereign merchant-ship over the four classe (or streets), also the oil-makers and the five kinds of artificers we have subjected to him (or given as slaves to him)

We have given as eternal (literally, ‘‘water”) possession to Iravi Corttan, the lord of the town, the brokerage and due customs of all that may be measured by the para, weighed by the balance, stretched by the line, of all that may be counted or carried, contained within salt sugar, musk, and lamp-oil, or whatever it be, viz., within the river-mouth of Codungalur and the tower, or between the four Talis (temples of the deputy Brahmans) and the gramams belonging to them. We have given it by an unreserved tenure to Iravi Corttan, Grand Merchant of the Cheraman world, and to his sons and sons' sons in proper succession. END OF QUOTE

The gist of the above treaty is the right to possess the local slaves under them. And the right to use all the paraphernalia of power and social prestige. The same kind of treaty was entered into by the Jews also with the local king, when they came to settle in South Asia.

The English colonialists were the only people in the recorded history of the subcontinent who strived to liberate the location slave populations and to educate them. However, when English colonialism is mentioned in India, people combine Continental European colonialisms, including Portuguese, Dutch, French etc. with English colonialism. And then the whole lot of negative deeds of the Continental Europeans are quietly heaped upon the native-English.

QUOTE: Every fountain and every stream had been appropriated by the insatiable greed of the intruders, and a piece of ground upon which none of them could live themselves was allotted for the regeneration of the owners of the soil. How could they learn the advantages of a more settled life on a spot where nothing could be cultivated, and scarcely a sufficient supply of their own primitive roots and tubers could be obtained ?

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This might actually be a standard sample of Continental European colonial actions. The English colonialism was not at all like this. However, as of now, no one is bothered to find the difference. For, all native-English nations are crumpling down with the rapid spread of a social disease called Multi-culture.

QUOTE 1: The burgher Coetzee van Reenen had an overseer who kept his flocks near the Zak river, this man was of a brutal and insolent disposition and a great tyrant over the Bushmen ; he had shot some of them at times out of mere wantonness. The Bushmen submissively endured the oppression of this petty tyrant for a long period, but at length their patience was worn out, and one day when he was cruelly maltreating one of their nation another struck him through with his assagai. This act was represented in the Colony as a horrible murder.

QUOTE 2: Thompson, who visited these tribes nearly twenty years later, says that after the larger game was driven out of the country by the guns of the Boers and the Griquas, the Bushmen were reduced to the most wretched shifts to obtain a precarious subsistence, living chiefly on wild roots, locusts, and the larvae of insects.

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The above again is not native-English colonial action, but that of the Boers. However, being entwined with the Continental Europeans can misguide the native-English and also make them accomplice to such actions. Even now this danger is there. For England is as of now entrapped by the Continental Europeans. In the second quote, the Griquas are seen mentioned. This is part of the long-terms issue when the native-English movements and organisations work in close collaboration with Continental Europeans and others. The essential Englishness of the organisation gets somewhat hazy.

QUOTE: In defence of these aggressions, they maintained that the Bushmen were a nation of robbers, who, as they neither cultivated the soil nor pastured cattle, were incapable of occupying the country advantageously ; that they would live much more comfortably by becoming the herdsmen and household servants of the Christians than they did on their own precarious resources, and finally that they were incapable of being civilised by any other means.

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The above is the Boer arguments for territorial aggrandisements into the native lands of the Bushmen. The next item for introspection is the word ‘Christian’. Continental European Christianity is basking in the halo of native-English Christianity. After all, the actual Christian religion is not European, but an Asian religion.

There is another large item to be noted down. When the feudal language speaking outsiders fill England, the native-English would find it quite irksome to work with them, work under them or to work above them. For, each of these connections will change the inner fabric of a native-Englishman’s soul and innate dispositions.

Actually I do find a very powerful parallel in this, in something that happened in South Asia during the English rule period.

The English government in Madras Presidency in British-India used to keep a watch over the native kingdom of Travancore. This was mainly due to the activities of the London Missionary Society inside the kingdom. This society was on a mad enterprise of unshackling the lower class bound-to-the-soil slave populations of the kingdom. The Missionary Society had the opinion that the kingdom was wasting its financial resources by giving various amenities to the Brahmans. See this Quote from Native Life in Travancore:

It is also detrimental to the Brahmans, for it encourages idleness. END OF QUOTE.

Actually there are very powerful reasons inside the language codes that insist that the higher positioned persons should not mingle or mix with the lower placed persons, other than with a cloak of ‘respect’.

In England, if the native-English start working under the feudal language speaking outsiders, their innate native-English refinement would get erased in a very slow, but exponential manner.

From this perspective and information, the fact that the Bushmen had their own lifestyle which they were not willing to forego easily can be mentioned as having more powerful reasons inside it, than can be understood by a native-English speaker.

QUOTE: The hundreds of whom he speaks had been most unceremoniously dispossessed of their country, and all their mountain streams had been appropriated to gratify the territorial greed of a few score men, who called themselves civilised because they had guns in their hands.

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The above words are about the Boers. However, it can be about any group which is armed better than the others. Only the native-English were different. But then the activities of the London Missionary Society did create something similar to happen in the southern parts of South Asia. In Travancore kingdom they improved the enslaved classes and gave them all kinds of technical knowhow, including that of making guns. When the English rule departed from the subcontinent and India was created in the location, these very same classes encroached into next door Malabar forest locations and literally exterminated huge populations of various kinds of animals, which had been living there in relative peace for centuries. These animals include monkeys, deer, porcupines, mountain goats, wild boar etc. This much is the effect of sharing technical knowhow with other populations who are desperate to get a possession. The affect was more or less same as that of the London Missionary Society arming the Griquas with technical knowledge and skills. The Bushmen suffered in this lopsided societal development inside South Africa, in which only one among the various populations was given terrific technical prowess.

Taking sides in the fight, only takes the social system to more social and civic pains, none of which would be understandable to the native-English as of now.

QUOTE: thus it was that in a short lime a controversy arose between the two rival Societies, the London and the Wesleyan, as to which had the right of teaching at Daniel's Kuil.

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This is actually a most unwelcome development. Two missions with the same mission, in the same area.

QUOTE: I beg to recommend that twelve miles along the Vaal river and six towards the Middle Veld, adjoining the country allotted to David Danser and the Korana captain Goliath, be given to the Bushman 'Kousopp." END OF QUOTE

This is the mess in which England has landed itself in collaborating with Continental Europe. They have to make amends for the brutality of the Boers. However, when everyone are defined as ‘Whites’, a part of the blame of the treacherous actions get to fall upon the English also, in the long run.

QUOTE: for if we calmly and dispassionately ask the question, what have been the results ? there can be but one truthful reply, failure, utter failure !

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The above statement is about the total end result of the English Colonialism, even though in this book it is about the Christian missionary efforts at improving the savage populations of Africa. However, when speaking about the English endeavour to improve the quality of life in the various barbarian and semi-barbarian locations all around the world, there are certain things to be borne in mind. One is that the stay-at-home England and Britain had a very contorted view and information about English colonial efforts. Many stay-at-home Britons really had a feeling that English colonialists were literally trampling the rights of the various native population and capturing the colonies. The actual fact is that in many of these locations, the English colonial efforts were directed in emancipating the populations which had been kept in a state of slavery for centuries, by the local feudal landlords. England was in many ways acting against the actions of the colonial English officials. It was a case of both sides, England and the colonial English, acting at cross purposes

Second was the fact that English colonialism was mixed up with the Celtic language speaking populations. These populations were literally the same semi-barbarian populations that were to be seen in the various colonial locations. The only difference might be that they were white-skinned. And that they had lived in close proximity to the English for centuries. This last mentioned item is a very fabulous social experience, which if South Asia had experienced for a similar period of time would have transformed South Asia into a wonderful social location.

The third item to mention is that the British Labour Party and many of the leftist idiots in Britain were actually collaborating with the social enslavers of the various colonies. For instance, Nehru, Gandhi, Subashchandran and many others from South Asia were actually part of the feudal landlord classes which had run roughshod over the lower classes of the subcontinent for centuries. British Labour Party and its super fiend Clement Atlee literally handed over the populations of South Asia to such terrible characters again.

QUOTE: We have already expressed astonishment that men who could speak so pathetically of " the poor natives " could not see the inconsistency of upholding the fictitious rights of their protégés at the expense of another race, whose land had been coolly appropriated because it was weaker than themselves.

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Even though the above statement is about South Africa, the same argument shall stand in the case of South Asia also. It is about the handing over of the various populations of South Asia to the ancient or newer feudal language exploiter classes of the subcontinent by Great Britain. Actually, the lower class populations have stood by the English rule through thick and thin. Yet, they were handed over to the same brutes who would use the feudal language pejorative words upon them again, when they have them in their clutches.

QUOTE: All the most eminent students of philology inform us that such must have been the condition of the speech of primeval man, and all history demonstrates to us, if we will but read it rightly, that all the modes of thought, and even religious beliefs, of the present day are but the elaborations and development of others more ancient.

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I need to take the above statement away from the content of this book. The fact is that almost all modern age technological progress, systems, ideas &c. can be connected to England or proximity to England over the centuries. In the present century, many US based businessmen, entrepreneurs and such other persons have been literally taking and giving it for free to all the other competing economic entities all around the world, with no qualms that they are cheating their own countrymen of their antique property rights. If the citizens of any other nation like China were seen distributing their national property to others, they would be in prison or experiencing something worse.

QUOTE: but with an intimation that in the event of a battle being inevitable, the Bachoana must strictly refrain from the slaughter of women and children (as was their barbarous practice), and that all the enemy who laid down their arms should receive quarter as prisoners of war.

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The above is very obviously a native-English intervention. What has been mentioned would never dawn in the minds of feudal language speaking populations, even if they are from Continental Europe.