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In the evening, I sent for Moshesh again to come to me. Moshesh came, but this time dressed like an ordinary kaffir, that is, not in European clothes.

When he came in, I called to him:

‘Why is Moshesh so long coming? Can’t he come when I send for him?’

Moshesh answered: ‘I am Moshesh.’

‘Oh’, said I.

- Paul Kruger on his visit to Thaba Bosiu in 1857 to negotiate with the Basotho king Moshoeshoe on behalf of the Republic of the Orange Free State. Kruger, who later became the president of the Transvaal Republic, was 32 at the time, Moshoeshoe 70.[1]