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grown with success where the farmer has sufficient capital to await the 

 time necessary to get a crop, but the cost of transportation prevents 

 export in competition with the fruits produced in other parts of the 

 world. It is well known that a great effort has been made by the gov- 

 ernment to get the Boers back on their farms, and we saw one example 

 of this in the new houses which have been built near the roofless walls 

 of every old one that we passed. For the Dutch settler is in general 

 the only class which has so far succeeded in extracting a living out of 

 the land, partly owing to his few needs and his content with meager 

 surroundings, but he is in some ways an obstacle to development by his 

 constitutional dislike to any alteration of the methods handed down to 

 him from his ancestors. 



On every side were to be seen evidences of the long-continued guer- 

 illa warfare; block houses perched on the hills, sometimes in long rows 

 a mile or two apart, at other times in isolated places; an occasional 

 area covered with rusty tin cans showing where a concentration camp 

 had been situated ; skeletons of cattle and mules along the roadside ; an 

 acre of the wdiitened bones of oxen, the scene of the destruction of a 

 convoy caught in a trap. Many of the pleasures and troubles of trek- 

 king were experienced. The night under the open sky on the veld, 

 various breakdowns and minor accidents, the hot noon suns and cold 

 starlit skies, the clouds of red dust raised by the mules — all combined 

 to give some idea of that fascination for traveling in Africa which has 

 so often been the theme in stories of fact and fiction. 



Tree in Rustenburg under which the Late Mr. Kruger preached his First 



Sermon to the Burghers. 



