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land, most of them by water — to German East Africa. 

 But in the part in which they happened to settle they 

 were decimated by fever, and their stock perished of 

 cattle sickness ; and most of them had again moved 

 northward, and once more found themselves under the 

 British Hag. They were being treated precisely on an 

 equality with tlie British settlers; and every well-wisher 

 to his kind, and above all every well-wisher to Africa, 

 must hope that the men who in Soutli Africa fought so 

 valiantly against one another, each for the right as he 

 saw it, will speedily grow into a companionship of 

 mutual respect, regard, and consideration such as that 

 which, for our inestimable good fortune, now knits 

 closely together in our own land tlie men who wore 

 the blue and the men who wore the grey and their 

 descendants. There could be no better and manlier 

 people than those, both English and Dutch, who are at 

 this moment engaged in the great and difficult task of 

 adding East Africa to the domain of civilization ; their 

 work is bound to be hard enough anyhow, and it would 

 be a lamentable calamitv to render it more difficult by 

 keeping alive a bitterness which has lost all point and 

 justification, or by failing to recognize the fundamental 

 virtues, the fundamental characteristics, in which the 

 men of the two stocks are in reality so much alike. 



Messrs. Klopper and Loijs, wliose farms I visited, 

 were doing well. The hitter, with three of his sons, took 

 me out with pride to show me the dam which they had 

 built across a dry watercourse, so as to make a storage 

 reservoir when the rains came. The houses were of 

 stone, and clean and comfortable ; the floors were 

 covered with the skins of buck and zebra ; the chairs 

 were home-made, as was most of the otlier furniture ; 

 the " rust bunks," or couches, strongly and gracefully 



