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with every enjoyment just as well as the 8,000 

 he earns as President. But perhaps dissipation 

 in the form of hoarding may be very pleasant 

 pastime to the initiated, if they can only manage 

 to ignore the extreme uncertainty of life, and the 

 speed with which it passes on to the extreme limits 

 only occasionally accorded. 



In his younger days Paul was a " mighty hunter 

 before the Lord," and flourished exceedingly on 

 the profits made by the extensive tanning work 

 he was skilled in. Game of all kinds abounded 

 near his large estate in the Rustenberg district, 

 and any quantity of hides was easily obtainable, 

 as were also bark and other necessary articles. 

 On this estate several hundred Kaffirs, under a 

 headman named Kamian, were located and 

 educated so far as to know that they were to 

 perform all the varied duties of Gibeonites to 

 the utmost endurable limits. These people were 

 not ruled with rods of iron, and I never heard 

 that whips of scorpions were employed to discipline 

 them, but other instruments made of rhinoceros or 

 hippo hide are very effective persuaders when 

 wielded by muscular fediirs, and the muscle and 

 the whips were always to hand when requisite. 



