iv Preface. 



results of" ail niireniunerativc outlay. But these 

 ii'entlemeu were not dissatisfied ; therefore the 

 public did I'ead the letters, But the public only 

 reads what it approves of, or what pleases it. 

 Tlien I am led to a stranii'e and terril:>le conclusion. 

 Either the critics Avho condemned the letters were 

 wrong, or, Avorse still, the puljlic does not care 

 twopence what tlie judgment of the critics may be. 

 It is on the off-cliance that this state of thino-s, 

 deduced by argument, may be the actual state of 

 thino-s that I a^'ain submit these letters to the 

 l)iil)lic in another form. In the course of succeed- 

 ing years many men and women will leave our 

 shores to take uj) their abode in South Africa. 

 Possibly some of these emigrants may glean from 

 the following i3ages some information not alto- 

 gether valueless as to the country, its people, its 

 attractions, its modes of life and of travel. More- 

 over, of tliat lariie number of home-dwellinir 

 ])ersons who follo^v witli atfection the fortunes of 

 a great and groAving colony in South Africa 

 there may jx'rchance be some whose interest 

 therein may be (piickened and sustained by the 

 perusal of the experiences, the thoughts of an 

 independent, unprejudiced wayfarer. In "either 

 case no linnn is done ; even a few grains of good 

 mav be ])roduced. 



BcA^ond mere verbal corrections and such other 

 corrections as Avere necessary for the transposition 

 of letters to a neAvspajier into chapters of a book. 



