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GOOD-BYE TO THE TEXDER. 



CHAPTER I. 



TO PRETORIA. 



Sail for South Africa.^ Passengers illustrate evolutionary factors in the 

 formation of a Colony. Zoological observations at sea. Flying-fish. 

 Malays at Cape Town. South- African Museum. Port Elizabeth. 

 Different routes to the Transvaal. Durban. Railway views between 

 Durban and Newcastle. Coach-travelling and its incidents. Majuba 

 Hill and scenes of late Boer War. Extermination of the ruminant- 

 fauna. Johannesburg after the boom. Pretoria ; botanical features ; 

 design of the town. 



ON a fine June day in 1890, the 'Norham Castle' 

 slowly hauled through the Dock-gates and steamed 

 down the river, to carry many hopes and fears to South 

 Africa. At . Dartmouth our principal contingent of 

 passengers joined the vessel and we sped South. It is 

 a well-established rule that readers shall be spared the 

 dreary recital of a voyage that has now lost all its 

 romance with increased speed and additional comfort, 

 though a floating hotel was a strong contrast to the 

 surroundings of my trip to the Malay Peninsula in a 

 sailing-vessel twenty-three years previously. 



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