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nesburg, and my dream of the railway line from 

 Cape Town to Delagoa has long been fulfilled. 



When Sir Theophilus Shepstone annexed the 

 Transvaal, Joseph Henderson, Chairman of the Natal 

 Bank, opposed the idea of carrying on the Delagoa 

 line as it would compete with Natal, so it was 

 stopped, but subsequently President Kruger re- 

 started it. 



The treatment of Macmurdo by the Portuguese 

 authorities in Delagoa Bay and the disgraceful 

 "Geneva award" after years of delay and when 

 most of the original arbitrators were dead were 

 common knowledge, but the railway is running now 

 for the benefit of the Portuguese port and prior to 

 the war for that of the Netherlands "Spoorweg 

 Maatschappij " in Holland. It must be borne in 

 mind that the English residents in the Transvaal 

 and other parts of South Africa had no hatred of 

 the Boer, but feared Paul Kruger and the influence 

 exercised by such men as Leyds, and other Hol- 

 landers, over him, and this fear was shared by many 

 Dutch Afrikanders. 



In 1883 Doctor Jorrissen who had been largely 

 instrumental in bringing about the war of 1880 and 

 obtaining the retrocession had gone with Mr. 

 Kruger to Europe, to get the terms of the Convention 

 made more favourable to the South African Republic 

 was in bad odour with the Volksraad, and they 

 decided to dismiss him. (I went to hear the debate.) 

 Later, I had a long talk with Doctor Jorrissen. He 

 was bitter at the treatment he had received from 

 the Boers and told me that he often had grave 

 doubts as to whether he had done right in assisting 

 them to gain an independence, which they did not 

 know how to make a proper use of, and that he 



