Ernst stayed in Bajamojo for only a day before returning to First Town. He took the water route to get there and the road back. The road from Bajamojo to First Town wasn't more comfortable than the water route, but it was stable enough.
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Orange Free State.
For the Boers of Orange, or rather the former Boers of the Orange Free State, life these days was quite frustrating.
On one hand, the British promises hadn't been fulfilled, and on the other, the Boers from the original Transvaal Republic had massively encroached on their resources.
"Back then, this wasn't what the British said. Not only did they fail to resolve Orange's financial issues, but they also kept raising taxes in Orange. We were deceived, and now the British won't even admit it!"
"The so-called investments and dividends never came to be, yet they kept hiring people to work in their diamond mines at very low wages. Those lands and mines were ours, those damned robbers."
