258 DEL AGO A BAY. 



A pump has been erected in the centre of the 

 square, but the water is only useful for household 

 purposes, as it is slightly brackish. Drinking 

 water has been brought from a spring behind the 

 marsh into the town, and a pretty white fountain 

 put up, where the Kafirs can draw water under 

 the eye of a guardian to keep order, unless they 

 prefer the free gossip of the old haunt. 



A library too is established, but as yet no 

 daily paper that sure sign of progress has 

 made its appearance. 



Large new barracks and a new prison are in 

 course of construction ; both, doubtless, to be 

 inhabited by the newly arrived force 'of white 

 police. 



Outside the town a Botanical Garden has been 

 subscribed for, and planned just beyond the 

 swamp, but it will be long before the few plants 

 introduced come to perfection. Not far from 

 this is a lawn - tennis ground, with a stand 

 waiting for the band which has long been pro- 

 mised, but never arrives. 



I am glad to say that after an interval of 



