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the distance you can see it, and then we came down to the 

 route and there took ship again. 



Their railroads are different from ours in every respect ; 

 everything is on a different basis from ours. The conductor 

 is not the man who conducts the train, but is the man who 

 makes the beds. They have guiding cars attached to them 

 in many cases, and you can get quite comfortable meals also. 

 As the trains are very narrow, the sleeping accommodations 

 have to be adapted to them. The cars are divided into com- 

 partments the same as ours. If three of you can get a four- 

 berth compartment, it is all right, but with four in a fcur- 

 berth compartment, you have to put everything on the floor, 

 there is no other place, and there is hardly room to turn 

 around. They arrange that there should be three in a com- 

 partment in most cases. 



These are pictures of a number of points in regard to 

 what we saw and what we did. Cape Town is, of course, the 

 first point you reach in South Africa. Johannesburg is the 

 larger city, but Cape Town has about ten thousand inhabi- 

 tants, and there is no city in the world that has a finer back- 

 ground than Cape Town. Whatever little street yoti look 

 down, it has for a background the Table Mountains. The 

 name " Table Mountains" is very suggestive. The moun- 

 tain is very difficult to ascend in most places, in fact there is 

 only one place in the front side where you can ascend the 

 mountain. The harbor is not a good one. In fact, I think 

 there is only one real shelter in it. The Table Mountain is 

 3500 feet high. There are a number of these mountains 

 which have been given various names, the Irion's Head, etc. 

 You must remember that Cape Colony was a Boer Colony at 

 one time, and on that account many names are connected with 

 the old Boer inhabitants of the phice. The lyion's Head, for 

 instance, you can see the lion resting there. There were 

 plenty of lions around Cape Town in early days. The lions 

 used to come right up to the town, and were indeed a source 

 of dread to the inhabitants. 



There are a great many interesting bits of scenery in the 



