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tive government in South Africa will be as great a 

 success as in Britain it now threatens to be a failure. 

 There are no class jealousies, there is no desire to tamper 

 with property, or to attack the interests of any section of 

 the community, and traitors who attempted to flagrantly 

 mislead their countrymen would have a hard time of it, 

 though they need not fear being lynched, for Africanders 

 as a rule are very good-tempered. 



If any country deserves the appellation of the garden 

 of the world, surely it is Natal. For there, in a tract not 

 larger than Scotland, exists a variety of scenes, tempera- 

 tures and products unequalled elsewhere on the face of 

 the globe. 



On the coast Nature gives with tropical profusion ; yet 

 there are none of the drawbacks usually obtaining in 

 warm countries, and at midsummer the heat is not 

 oppressive. 



The upper tracts are a fine grazing country. Sheep 

 and cattle thrive all the year round, and the soil yields 

 to cultivation almost anything that can be obtained in 

 Europe. 



Does a man desire beautiful wooded scenery, let 

 him ride from Durban to Verulam, or from the 

 Noodsberg through the Tongaat to Verulam, and I 

 answer for it he will be satisfied. Does he wish for open 

 plains or for views of mountain ranges, let him go to the 

 Newcastle district, and he will obtain both within sight 

 of the Drakensberg Range. 



Does he wish for an even temperature all the year 

 round, let him shift his quarters from Durban to New- 

 castle with the changes of the season. 



In this delightful country, neither heat nor cold op- 

 presses. The air is dry and clear. Fever and liver 



