214 SOUTH AFRICA. 



Africa, if some parts of the Kalliharri be excepted, 

 but the presence of an acute form of African fever 

 precludes the hope that it will ever be settled by 

 stock farmers, although some of them may make 

 use of it during the healthier season from May 

 till about November. 



At present Rhodesia, great as its ultimate possi- 

 bilities may be, is not, I think, a country to which 

 a poor man can be conscientiously advised to go 

 unless under a contract providing work of a 

 specified kind and for a certain term. Mere un- 

 skilled labour is sufficiently supplied by the natives 

 at a very low rate of pay, and as time advances 

 this source of labour supply will be always adequate 

 to meet any possible demand for the rough 

 work requisite in mining or agricultural pursuits. 

 Englishmen have every reason to be proud of the 

 success of the brave few who have added Rhodesia 

 to the Empire, and every inducement to aid and 

 assist the development of this promising territory 

 is fairly within view of the speculative classes who 

 have supplied the impetus to which such great 

 success in South African enterprise is due. 



