Note 90 — IV. Chronicles of Two Leaders of the Great Emigration, Louis Triegard and Pieter Uys.

The private, confidential, and semi-official correspondence between Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban, Colonel H. G. Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel H. Somerset, and many others, was fortunately preserved by the governor and remained in his family’s possession until 1911, when it was most kindly presented by his grandson W. S. M. D’Urban, Esqre., of Exeter, through me to the government of the Union of South Africa. I immediately published one volume of these most valuable papers under the title of The Kaffir War of 1835, which can be seen in several of the most important public libraries in Great Britain and the Netherlands as well as in those of South Africa. I copied sufficient for two volumes more, which can be seen typewritten in the South African Public Library, Capetown, under the title of The Province of Queen Adelaide, and finally I am now preparing another packet, under the title of The Emigration of the Dutch Farmers from the Cape Colony, which will also be deposited in the same institution. It is from these papers that I have derived the information which enables me to enlarge upon the accounts of Louis Triegard and Pieter Lavras Uys which I have given in my History of South Africa. I am also indebted to G. C. Moore Smith, Esqre., M.A., of Sheffield, a great nephew of Colonel (afterwards Sir Harry) Smith, for the use of many papers in his possession and for much kindly assistance otherwise rendered to me.