IOO TALES OF A NOMAD. 



complaints are almost unknown, and people with diseased 

 lungs obtain a new lease of life. 



Were Natal to be cut adrift from the rest of the world 

 she would hardly feel the loss, for she contains within 

 her own borders everything that can be desired, includ- 

 ing minerals. 



To any man weary of the turmoil of existence and 

 desiring to pass the rest of his days in health and tran- 

 quillity, I would say : " Dulce est desipere in Natal". He 

 will do it as comfortably on 600 a year as he would 

 elsewhere on ^"2000. 



A large Caffre population exists. They are a most 

 interesting people. Brave, honest, courteous and 

 kindly, with plenty of fun and character. 



Their instincts are opposed to sustained labour. They 

 go out to work for six months or thereabouts and then 

 return to their kraals. 



Thanks to the influence of that remarkable family, 

 the Shepstones, they have been ruled with singular 

 wisdom and common-sense. The success of native 

 policy in Natal is a tribute to the practical ability of the 

 Anglo-Saxon race. 



Had we been Americans we should probably have 

 started with some beautiful theories about the progress of 

 the human race have told the Caffres that they were 

 men and brothers have given them the electoral fran- 

 chise have improved them in a hurry, destroyed their 

 tribal institutions, rooted up their customs and vested 

 interests, and, generally speaking, turned them topsy- 

 turvy have presented them each with a copy of the 

 New Testament in Zulu (without marginal exposition), 

 a tall hat, a pair of boots and a Gladstonian collar have 

 robbed them of their land have thrown open (in de- 



