IT IS NOT a nation of brokers, bankers and montebanks.
So, bud, move over and leave the natives alone. The plant is quite large and there may be room for you somewhere.
You obviously have not read the treaty. But we will have to agree to disagree.
It was a desolate wasteland then due to several decades of extreme drought.
The area simply wasn't assigned to Britain but it was allowed to come under mostly/kinda British rule ~ but the Dutch were specifically prohibited from entering into the region as a whole.