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and wished to avoid living under the British flag. Some 

 moved West and some East; those I met were among the 

 many hundreds, indeed thousands, who travelled northward 

 a few overland, 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 north- 

 ward, and once more found themselves under the British 

 flag. They were being treated precisely on an equality with 

 the British settlers; and every well-wisher to his kind, and 

 above all every well-wisher to Africa, must hope that the 

 men who in South 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 con- 

 sideration such as that which, for our inestimable good fort- 

 une, now knits closely together in our own land the men 

 who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray 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 add- 

 ing East Africa to the domain of civilization; their work is 

 bound to be hard enough anyhow; and it would be a lam- 

 entable calamity 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 fun- 

 damental characteristics, in which the men of the two 

 stocks are in reality so much alike. 



Messrs. Klopper and Loijs, whose farms I visited, were 

 doing well; the latter, 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 



