THE LAND QUESTION OF GRIQUALAND WEST:

xiii + 351pp + four folding maps (6 maps on 4 sheets) - as follows: 1: Griqualand West and adjoining territories (coloured lithograph), Map 2: Captain Kok's Territory and Map 3: Extra to the 'Journal', (maps 2 and 3 on one sheet, torn at first fold), Map 4: of the lands claimed by the Missionaries of the Berlin Missionary Society at Pniel. Map 5: not titled but with lines in black, green and red showing lines of beacons.  Map 6: The Line from Rama to David's Graf. (maps 4 and 6 on one sheet),  Colonial Library stamps on the title page and elsewhere in the text, half brown leather with brown cloth sides, bookplate of Rt. Honble. General Louis Botha, Rusthof Library, pasted upside down on the back paste-down endpaper, a very good copy.

Mendelssohn (S.) South African Bibliography, volume I, pages 52/53, ‘The volume which was written at the instigation of Mr. J. B. Currey, Government Secretary of Griqualand West, commences with an account of the Colony and its native inhabitants from 1788 to 1864, when a treaty having been made between Adam Kok and Sir P. Maitland, a boundary line was fixed. Some references are made to certain proclamations issued by Sir Harry Smith in 1848, and to the land grants distributed by Major Warden, and there is an account of the retrocession of the Orange River. Sovereignty, the disputes between the Republic and Waterboer, together with details concerning " the extraordinary way in which the Free State continued for years to make various and discordant claims on all sorts of grounds." A mass of correspondence is appended between Messrs. Arnot, Orpen, and Bowker, also extracts from the latter's memorial to Queen Victoria, dated June 6, 1874, in which allusion is made to “the great land swindle of Griqualand West." “The persistent encroachments of the Boers, and the annoyances to which, unchecked by their own Government, they subjected the (British) settlers, at last wore out the settlers' patience, and they besieged Waterboer and Mr. Arnot with complaints." They met the chief and his council at Griqua Town in January 1870, when Waterboer declared that “nothing could be done to save his country from the Boers except its annexation by the British Government," and that now that diamonds had been found in his territory," his Government would be powerless to maintain order." Finally Sir Henry Barkly wrote to Waterboer that the Queen had consented to his prayer that the country might be annexed, which was carried out by a proclamation issued on October 27, 1871.’