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burnt wagons. Leaving Kimberley the party pushed on past 
Warrenton and Fourteen Streams, Taungs, and Vryburg, 
through Mafeking to Buluwayo. A very fine reception 
awaited them there, and from there they visited the Matappos, 
and Rhodes’ grave at the top of the mighty granite monarch of 
the mountains known as the World’s View. A rather mono- 
tonous journey mainly through bush veldt, passing, however, 
two interesting places, Artesia and the Wankie coalmine, 
brought them to Victoria falls, just below which the tropical 
old Zambesi is spanned by an enormous iron bridge (constructed 
at Darlington, and taken out in sections and put together with 
very considerable skill and ingenuity) in order that the line of 
railway might continue to thread its way further and further 
north, and eventually to Lake Tanganyika. Sir George Dar- 
win opened this bridge, and over it the party crossed in the 
first passenger train to enter northern Rhodesia. After des- 
cribing the marvellous beauty of the falls, Mr. Wakefield 
conducted his audience back through Buluwayo and 
Salsbury to Umtali, the last town in British territory ; then 
across the Portuguese frontier via Bamboo Creek to Beira, 
where the steamer was rejoined, the next place of call being 
Mozambique, an old Arab and Portuguese stronghold. Thence 
Kilindi, the new port for Mombasa, and then to the old Arab 
city of Mombasa itself. After a trip up the Uganda Railway, 
they re-embarked, journeying up the Red Sea, past tbe sun- 
baked rocks of Aden, the sand coloured, dry and burnt up 
shores of Arabia, and the distant mountains of Sinai and 
Horeb, to Suez. A flying visit to Cairo and the Pyramids, 
the Sphinx and the Nile, and the old historic scenes of Pharaoh 
were a little extra tit-bit thrown into the tour to the very 
great pleasure and satisfaction of those who then saw Egypt 
for the first time. Mr. Wakefield concluded a charming 
lecture with a few words about the people of South Africa, and 
the work of the British in Egypt. He said the Dutch are a 
fine, healthy, hardy race, and he looked forward to the time 
when the splendid qualities of their fellow subjects of Dutch 
descent would be an invaluable asset to the Empire. In regard 
to Egypt, he said, ‘‘ One cannot help a feeling of pride in the 
young Englishmen and Scotchmen and _ Irishmen whose 
honesty and fixity of purpose are accomplishing such splendid 
results. Truly— 
‘He little knows of England 
Who only England knows.’ ” 
