IO2 TALES OF A NOMAD. 



adopted land. The sooner this comes about, the nearer 

 are the prospects of obliteration of race jealousies, and 

 of confederation throughout South Africa. 



There is a considerable Dutch element in Natal, and 

 it includes some of the most intelligent and influential 

 members of the community. 



The general level of education, respectability and fit- 

 ness for conducting government is very much above 

 anything which exists in Europe. 



Hospitality is the rule of the country, and the social 

 relations all round are very kindly. By this I do not 

 mean that the state of affairs approximates in any way 

 to the offensive American, "Good morning, stranger ; I'm 

 as good as you are and a d d sight better," style, but 

 that a mutual civility is observed towards each other by 

 all classes of society, and neither snobbish arrogance on 

 one side, or, on the other, servility flying at times to the 

 opposite extreme of bumptious Radical impertinence, 

 disfigure the relations between man and man as they so 

 painfully do in Britain. The people of Natal are a 

 courteous and sensible democracy. They are polite to 

 all, but they eschew tuft hunting. May they continue 

 to run on the same lines ! 



At one time Natal afforded excellent mixed shooting, 

 such as I have never seen elsewhere. There was a 

 great variety of birds and ground game, and the sports- 

 man had to carry cartridges loaded with different sizes 

 of shot. For snipe partridges and hares No. 6 shot ; for 

 certain kinds of antelope which squat like hares and rise 

 before the gun, viz., oribi, duiker, and stein-buck, buck- 

 shot, about thirty to the ounce, were the best projectiles ; 

 and for reed-buck, rooi-rheebuck, and bush-buck I used 

 loupers about twelve to the ounce. 



