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you want to go from point to point 3'ou can take a cab, but 

 if you do not feel capable of taking a cab you can take a 

 ricksha, a glorified baby carriage on a large scale, and the 

 animal that goes between the shafts is a boy. They admit 

 that they are cattle and think they ought to have a pair of 

 horns to put on their heads, as they have a sense of the 

 artistic. They have paint on their legs to indicate a pair of 

 stockings and other things. They are healthy looking fellows 

 who are always prancing along, and inviting you to take a 

 seat in their vehicle, at the rate of five miles an hour to any 

 part of the town. Though right in the heart of South Africa 

 it is not at all old fashioned. The capital, as you know, is 

 Pretoria, a much smaller place than Johannesburg. It is so 

 hot, I don't wonder the people are drowsy, I visited Kruger's 

 house and saw the church where he preached, and then went 

 to the cemetery. Do you see the word " Canada " back 

 there ; and here is a whole row of graves of soldiers and 

 several of them boys of Canada. This young fellow was 

 only twenty-two years old. This was one of the saddest 

 cases I know of. There were some of our bo^'s lying there 

 in that far-off country. That was what impressed me most. 

 There were hundreds and hundreds of graves there, the 

 majority of them British, and a number of them Canadian. 



We made a long excursion from Pretoria towards the 

 East coast. This picture shows us calling on the ladies of 

 the party, who come out much surprised to see us. These 

 are some of the ladies and these are the houses that they in- 

 habit. I always noticed a semi-circular fence in front of the 

 houses, which are bee-hive shaped, a fence four or five feet 

 from the house, and at last an explanation of the use of this 

 was given me by a very genial Boer farmer. He said that 

 the lions would come in at night and sometimes carry off one 

 of the darkies. That throws a curious light on the history 

 of the region. At one of the railway stations where we 

 stopped, there was a great commotion, and when we inquired 

 what wa'S the matter, were told that the lions had been after 

 their goats. There are lions in Africa yet, you see. We did 

 not see any lions ourselves except in captivity. 



