

(FIG. I.I 



AN OIT-POST OF EMPIRE. 

 This is the lonely station of the Mounted Police at Obobogorop, two miles 

 from the German Border. (Privates Freeman and Nicholson, Cape Mounted 



Police.) 



(fig. 2.) 



DIAMOND DIGGERS AT RIETFONTEIN", GORDONTA. 



Should diamonds be discovered the sand dunes of the Desert will soon 



disappear before the genius and enterprise of the railroad engineer. 



