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GOOD-BYE TO THE TENDER. 



CHAPTER I. 



TO PRETORIA. 



Sail for South Africa. Passengers illustrate evolutionary factors in the 

 formation of a Colony. Zoological observations at sea. Flying-fish. 

 Malays at Cape Town. South-African Museum. Port Elizabeth. 

 Different routes to the Transvaal. Durban. Railway views between 

 Durban and Newcastle. Coach-travelling and its incidents. Majuba 

 Hill and scenes of late Boer War. Extermination of the ruminant- 

 fauna. Johannesburg after the boom. Pretoria ; botanical features ; 

 design of the town. 



ON. a fine June day in 1890, the 'Norham Castle' 

 slowly hauled through the Dock-gates and steamed 

 down the river, to carry many hopes and fears to South 

 Africa. At Dartmouth our principal contingent of 

 passengers joined the vessel and we sped South. It is 

 a well-established rule that readers shall be spared the 

 dreary recital of a voyage that has now lost all its 

 romance with increased speed and additional comfort, 

 though a floating hotel was a strong contrast to the 

 surroundings of my trip to the Malay Peninsula in a 

 sailing-vessel twenty-three years previously. 



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