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Auction: 20040 - Stamps and Covers of Southern Africa
Lot: 4

Basutoland
Covers and Cancellations
Early Letters of the Border Disputes
1872 (28 Apr.) autograph letter from C.H. Bell at Leribe to Richard Southey, Colonial Secretary of Cape Colony which concludes "I have not yet been able to get any thing, I have not even a Government spade or a handcuff though requisitions went in many months ago. I am going... to look at the N.E. boundary and to see if I can't make some chiefs who say they are squeezed up & can't pay up their Hut tax. Molapo won't help in the matter, no doubt in the absurd belief that the land which these chiefs lived on & which now belongs to the Free State may be given back"; and 1878 (24 Aug.) Colonial Forces Orders printed in King Williamstown giving details of the move of Commandant General Griffith from the command of the Colonial Forces to his new appointment in Basutoland. A fine pair

Note: In 1871 Bell was appointed a magistrate at Leribe in Northern Basutoland and earned a place in Basuto song and legend under the title "Majorobelloo"

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