CHAPTER XIX. 



South African Railways— Coaching across the Veldt— Driving Twelve in 

 Hand— Driver and Guard— Food for Horses— Oat Hay— Temper of 

 South African Horses — South African Method of Horsebreaking — Horse- 

 manship in South Africa and Australia — Tying Horses to Post in the 

 Streets — Knee Haltering — The Veldt. 



AS the journey from Kimberley to Johannesburg, where 

 I had arranged to go, was rough and costly, I thought 

 it best to leave my wife at Kimberley, where we had several 

 pleasant friends, and to attack the Randt alone. After a 

 wearisome journey of two nights and a day in a most un- 

 comfortable train service, I arrived in Kronstadt, which is a 

 small town in the Orange Free State, and had then to travel 

 twenty-four hours in a coach before arriving at Johannesburg, 

 the capital of the gold fields. 



The way in which the railways, a Government monopoly, 

 are managed in Cape Colony is a disgrace to a civilised 



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