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ence no ordinary one and enabled us to carry away facts and ideas 

 which could hardly have been obtained in a much longer period. To 

 those who are accustomed to travel in Europe and who have money and 

 leisure for four months or more away from home, a visit to South 

 Africa is to be highly recommended. The steamers, while not equip- 

 ped with the excessive luxuries of the most modern North Atlantic 

 boats, are comfortable and sail over waters which are rarely disturbed 

 by storms or gales. The long distance trains are at least as good as 

 those in Europe, and hotels, accustomed to cater for English people, 

 will be found everywhere. The cost of such an expedition extended 



A Street in Mombasa. 



over four months need not exceed fifteen hundred dollars per head, in- ( 

 eluding passage money. 



Finally, what should South Africa hope to receive in return from 

 those who have accepted her hospitality? An increased sympathy 

 with her people, a better knowledge of their struggles in developing the 

 resources of the country, and an attempt to put an end to the long 

 career of misrepresentation which has been pursued by many public 

 bodies and private individuals in the mother country, doubtless. But 

 there is more. The colonies are not lands where the agriculturist can 

 simply sow his seed and watch his crops grow; wdiere the rancher can 

 stock his farm and await the increase; wdiere the planter puts in his 

 trees and leaves them until the harvest is ripe; where the miner has 

 only to dig out the gold and grow rich quickly; or where the trader 

 can take his goods and calculate his profits beforehand. Irrigation, 



