Crossword-Solution: TREKKERS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The trekkers, like the Irish emigrants, nursed a resentment against the British Government which was a source of untold expense and suffering in the future.

Sir Andries Stockenstrom himself, in replying to an address from the inhabitants of Uitenhage, stated that 'he was not aware of any law which prevented any of his Majesty's subjects from leaving his dominions and settling in another country; and such a law, if it did exist, would be tyrannical and oppressive.' The story of the trekkers is one of surpassing interest, and must enlist for them the sympathy and unbounded admiration of all.

Not only these trekkers, but all who, from the period of the seventeenth century onwards, had had the tendency to wander from the Cape, belonged to the most adventurous and warlike portion of the population.

CHAPTER VI THE TRANSVAAL OF TO-DAY We have dealt with the exodus of the trekkers, and with the land that subsequently became the Transvaal.

There is something of the epic in the narrative of those doughty, psalm-singing trekkers who, like the Mormons in the American West, went forth in their canvas-covered wagons with a rifle in one hand and the Bible in the other.