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kept three years waiting for settlement, three years after 
they have entered their claim. 
Then the terms on which land may be had have not only 
been altered more than once, but are subject to constant and 
irritating alteration. First, land is sold outright to bona fide 
settlers, then it is leased for ninety-nine years at a halfpenny 
an acre, then for thirty-three or twenty-three years ata penny. 
The list of changes is a long one and more and more to follow. 
It is confessedly difficult to attract real settlers to a land so full 
of problems and dangers, and at so great a distance from 
English homes and English markets, and it really would 
seem as though the purpose of those who make laws was to 
place hindrances in the path of actual settlement rather than 
to remove them. 
As to the education of those in the country or coming to 
it, practically nothing whatever has been done. ‘There are 
as yet very few true white settlers. As I have said in an- 
other place Englishmen who intend making their real home 
here are almost non-existent. Some are working with pluck 
and perseverance, some are beginning to make a little money, 
but just so soon as they have put their farms in order, found 
a crop that will pay them well, secured native labour to workit, 
and made reasonably sure of a market, they will pay some 
head man to carry on their work and, taking their savings 
with them, they will go home. I don’t think it fair to call 
such men settlers, nor do | think it likely that such class of 
men, even when enterprising and industrious as they often 
are, will be able in the future to hold their own against the 
Boer, who, if less intelligent and less industrious, sits downon 
the land and raisesa family. The Boer will need, and in the 
interest of the country itself should have, help given to him to 
educate his family. Many of them have spoken to me on 
the subject. There are in the Protectorate Boers and Boers. 
There are already some intelligent, progressive men who 
fully appreciate, as they believe them, the great possibilities 
