CHAPTER XIX. 



South African Railways Coaching across the Veldt Driving Twelve in 

 Hand Driver and Guard Food for Horses Oat Hay Temper of 

 South African Horses South African Method of Horsebreaking Horse- 

 manship in South Africa and Australia Tying Horses to Post in the 

 Streets Knee Haltering The Veldt. 



AS the journey from Kimberley to Johannesburg, where 

 I had arranged to go, was rough and costly, I thought 

 it best to leave my wife at Kimberley, where we had several 

 pleasant friends, and to attack the Randt alone. After a 

 wearisome journey of two nights and a day in a most un- 

 comfortable train service, I arrived in Kronstadt, which is a 

 small town in the Orange Free State, and had then to travel 

 twenty-four hours in a coach before arriving at Johannesburg, 

 the capital of the gold fields. 



The way in which the railways, a Government monopoly, 

 are managed in Cape Colony is a disgrace to a civilised 



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