The London Convention also empowered  the British to establish a Protectorate over what was referred to as 'Bechuanaland'.

《伦敦公约》还授权英国在所谓的“贝专纳兰”地区建立一个保护国。

Thanks to a trio of astute chiefs who petitioned Britain more than a century ago, the then Bechuanaland became a protectorate, not a colony.

多亏了三个精明的酋长在一个多世纪前向英国请愿，使得当时的贝古纳兰成为了一个受保护国，而不是殖民地。

Since the establishment of the British  Protectorate over Bechuanaland, Rhodes had been very aware of the friendliness between  the Transvaal Republic and the Northern Ndbele people, also known as the Matabele.

自从英国在贝专纳兰建立保护国以来，罗德斯就非常清楚德兰士瓦共和国与北恩贝莱人（也称为马塔贝莱人）之间的友好关系。

With significant  new investments in Basutoland and Bechuanaland at the periphery of British territory, Rhodes spent  much of the latter half of the 1880s extending his diamond concerns to monopolize the entirety  of the South African diamond trade.

随着在英国领土外围的巴苏陀兰和贝专纳兰进行大量新投资，罗兹在 1880 年代后半叶的大部分时间里扩大了他的钻石业务， 以垄断整个南非钻石贸易。