He was at that time Sir Charles Grant, and a member of the great Reform ministry. His action in the matter was prompted by a mischievous personality, a Dr Philip, representative of a missionary society in South Africa, who conceived a great and unjust hatred of the Boers, and an affection for the negro invaders of Cape Colony, which was exaggerated and unreasonable. Much may be learnt of his attitude towards public questions in my _Life of Livingstone_ (1891). Footnote 145: “Grikwa” was the cant name (Gri-kwa) given to the half-castes between Boers and Hottentots. Footnote 146: The Fingo—properly Amamfengu—Kafirs, were mostly fugitives into Cape Colony from Natal, sent flying westward from the Zulu slaughter-raids of Chaka and others. Footnote 147: Discovered by the Portuguese in 1502, its existence was kept secret by them until 1588, when Captain Cavendish returning from a cruise round the world suddenly lighted on it. The Dutch twice seized it and held it each time for a few months in 1665 and 1673. In this last year it was definitely allotted to the East India Company. Footnote 148: The largest of a little group of islets in the South Atlantic, about 1260 miles west of the Cape of Good Hope. Tristan D’Acunha has an area of about 45 square miles, and is extremely mountainous, rising to 8264 feet. Footnote 149: Or “Land of the Abambo,” the name of one of the original Bantu tribes of the country. The root _-mbo_ is very common as a tribal name among the Bantu, and occurs repeatedly in Central Africa. Footnote 150: To which were added in later years tea (a great success) and coffee—the latter subsequently destroyed by the Ceylon coffee disease. Footnote 151: Nov, 1912, nearly 1,000,000. Footnote 152: Twelve years later the northern railway line had traversed British Bechuanaland and had reached Buluwayo. It attained the Zambezi in 1903, and now enters the Belgian Congo in Katanga. Footnote 153: