ABSTRACT
Headlines in the settler press referred to the "Bushman Plague", the "Bushman Danger" and the "Yellow Peril". The chamber urgently requested the government to "please be so kind as to immediately start with the sanitization of the Bushman hordes in that area". The district commandant of Outjo went further: He wanted to include Bushman women in the definition of Bushmen, as they "were just as dangerous". Professor Felix von Luschan found such proposals unacceptable and suggested that, on the contrary, a Bushman reserve should be created in the "interest of science". Vedder actively advised the administration on how to circumvent Bushman resistance to dispossession of their lands by settlers. A major force in Rhenish attempts to gain Bushman converts was the arrival of Vedder at Gaub in 1911 to start a school. The archives are rather scanty on these Bushman attacks, yet even the settler press conceded that they were probably more important than attacks on settlers.
