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other part of the concession was on the lower 

 terraces towards Swaziland called Roburnia. Mc- 

 Korkindale undertook to import white settlers to 

 occupy this land, and was to open up a trade route 

 to the Southern portion of Delagoa Bay. He often 

 used to stay at "The Willows," when travelling 

 between New Scotland and Pretoria, and gave me a 

 very unfavourable idea of the thankless task of 

 trying to settle emigrants on the land in South 

 Africa. These Scotch peasants, judging from Mc- 

 Korkindale's statements, who were used to privation 

 and hard work in their own country, were not satis- 

 fied with anything while they could claim what they 

 wanted from the Glasgow Company and would do 

 nothing to improve their own position. Eventually, 

 when he died, and the settlement was disbanded, 

 many of these men (when thrown on their own 

 resources) did quite well for themselves. The land 

 has been sold in farms ; and thus the company may 

 have repaid their outlay, while the district is filling 

 up ; partly occupied by settlers under Lord Milner's 

 scheme after the war, partly by Dutch and English 

 fanners. McKorkindale died of malarial fever 

 contracted on the island of Injak, Delagoa Bay, 

 while waiting for a vessel bringing him freight 

 from England. He was an enthusiastic, courage- 

 ous pioneer of the best sort, but troubles and 

 anxieties proved too much for him. I remember 

 Anthony Trollope, the novelist, in 1877, being angry 

 with me for saying, I did not think he should write 

 a book on South Africa, until he had studied the life 

 and conditions of the country outside Government 

 House, and apart from blue books. Sir George 

 Colley stayed in Pretoria and passed on to Delagoa 

 Bay on foot. Some years afterwards he was com- 

 mander-in-chief in Natal and was in command at 

 Ingogo, Lang's Nek and Majuba, where he was killed. 



