, THE HIGH VELDT. 9 
here, for the country does not seem to bear much 
timber naturally. There is plenty of scrub on the 
slopes of the high land as you descend, and I believe 
there is a large extent of bush country round here, 
and when we get into the regular bush, plenty of 
timber, I imagine, such as it is ; but this part of 
BOER'S farm, high veldt, TRANSVAAL. 
Africa is no timber country. On the high veldt 
there is nothing but parched grass, in many places 
burnt for a whole day's trek, as fires are of every- 
day occurrence. On one occasion we had ^5 to 
pay a man in front of whose house our men had set 
fire to the veldt whilst lighting our camp fire. The 
