ABSTRACT
Distr~'ct of Port Natal. British Protectorate. In 1837 a body of Dutch Boers emigrated from the Cape into Natal.
Owing to the frequent disturbances between the Boers and the Zulus the Governor of the Cape sent a military force into thp. district in 1842. The Boers submitted in July of that year and on the 12th May, 1843, a Proclamation was issued by the Governor of th.e Cape of Good Hope, which contained the following declaration :-
" III.-That the district of Port Natal, according to such convenient limits as shall hereafter be fixed upon and defined, will be recognized and adopted by Her Majesty the Queen as a British Colony, and that the Inhabitants thereof shall, so long as they conduct themselves in an orderly and peaceable manner, be taken under the protection of the British Crown."
