Rains gave the soil an adequate supply of moisture. and the streams plunged over great precipices down to the sea. At what is now Durban was found a fine harbor. Many of the emigrants followed the transmountain explorers and settled along the east slope. contiguous to the sea. Here. however. the Dutch home seekers ran counter to Englands scheme of benevolence toward mankind (for we of the United States are not the originators of governmental desire to make all people happy). and the sturdy wanderers were forced by British bayonets to recross the mountain chain and occupy the inhospitable plateaus of the semiarid belt. The country about Durban. the colony of Natal. the coast line the Boers had hoped to make lodgment upon. was promptly annexed to the Empire of Great Britain. and England thanked God that the circumference of the sea was safe from the occupancy of any other power.
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