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crowded iu a few years' time with thousands of 

 Enghshmeu, wlio will impatiently jerk from their 

 shoulders the u'overnment of the Boers. These 

 will be out-numbered, absorbed, or scattered. 

 Already this j^rocess is perceptibly going on. All 

 the cai^ital invested in the Transvaal is foreign 

 and under foreign direction. Such is also the 

 case with all industry other than pastoral ; I 

 was informed on good authorit\' that more than 

 three-fourths of the land itself is now OA^oied by 

 foreigners. The days of the Trans^'aal Boers as 

 an independent and distinct nationalit}' in South 

 Africa are numbered ; they will j^ass a^vay uii- 

 honoui'cd, unlamented, scared}' even remembered 

 either by the native or l)y the European settler. 

 Having had gi^'en to them great possessions and 

 great opportunities, they ^vill be ^T.'itten of onh' 

 for their cruelty to'wards and tyranny over the 

 native races, their fanaticism, their ignorance, 

 and their selfishness ; they will be handed down 

 to posterity by tradition as having conferred no 

 single benefit upon any single human being, not 

 even upon themselves, and upon the pages of 

 African history they will leave the shadoAv, but 

 only a shadow, of a dark reputation and an evil 

 name. 



These were the reflections with which I 

 journeyed from Johannesburg to Pretoria. The 

 road traverses a rolling veldt, similar to the other 

 parts of the Transvaal which I have visited. Al- 

 though a highway of great importance, and 

 crowded wtih traffic of one kind and another. 



