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CHAPTER VIII. 



THE MEN OF PRETORIA. 



The inhabitants of Pretoria. Auriferous wealth alone the present cause 

 of Transvaal development. Uneducated condition of the Boers. 

 Liquor traffic with the Kafirs. The British colonist in the Transvaal. 

 The Hebrew in Pretoria. Commercial morality. The name of 

 Mr. Gladstone execrated in the Transvaal. The Kafir and his value 

 as a labourer. Sanitary condition of Pretoria. Vital statistics. After- 

 effects of the boom. Attachment of Colonists to their adopted 

 country. 



WHO are the men of Pretoria] We have already 

 spoken of the Boers, who are farmers and burghers, and 

 not what are understood as merchants and citizens ; and 

 in dealing with the population of the capital of the 

 Transvaal a question more for the sociologist than the 



