BOER MARKSMANSHIP. 255 



A more uninviting country to the eye would 

 indeed be difficult to find outside the Arctic 

 regions, but the Boer is utterly insensible either 

 of the charms of the picturesque or of their absence. 

 Good pasture and a sufficiency of indifferent water 

 suffice to make him a happy smoker of the calumet 

 of content 



Gold, or diamonds, or both, may possibly be 

 discovered, but the possibility of converting them 

 into profitable assets is hardly obvious. 



