The Gun Runners (II)

While a few Boers such as Viljoen, covertly supplied Batswana with munitions, for the most part, the independent western Batswana merafe ended up relying on Griqua and other indigenous suppliers, as well as British traders and adventurers up from the Cape Colony.

Among the latter, David “Taute” Hume and his Kolobeng agent Evans, Cumming, Wilson, Alfred Dolman and his suspected murderer Henry Moyle, as well as Joseph McCabe, are known to have been volume traders, while few, if any, of the scores of Europeans who passed through the region are likely to have not supplied at least some guns to Batswana. But, with the notable exception of Cumming, most were publicly discreet about such dealings.