CHAPTER XXXIII. 



TO YOUNG ENGLISHMEN INTENDING TO EMIGRATE. 



Annually there go forth to the various British colo- 

 nies hundreds of young Englishmen, most of them 

 well principled, well brought up, and well educated, 

 sound and robust, determined, and sent forth to carve 

 out their own fortunes. For years Australia and New 

 Zealand, with their attractive wool-growing pursuits, 

 absorbed most of these ; but now their attention is 

 being largely turned to the Cape, especially in connec- 

 tion with Ostrich- farming, and justly so, for no 

 colony offers a better field. 



The bright, wild dreams of accumulating a rapid 

 fortune in some pleasant manner, with little trouble to 

 themselves, in some vague, undefined way, will soon be 

 dispelled ; and they will find that neither a decent 

 living, a comfortable independence, nor a fortune, are to 

 be had here, or anywhere else, without strenuous exer- 

 tion, strict sobriety, command of temper, rectitude, and 

 a power of turning their hands to whatever offers, and 

 doing it with all their migbt. But these are just the 

 qualities that distinguish the young Englishman above 



