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Having got so far, dear reader, perhaps you begin to wonder whether Oom 

 Piet was not right after all, and wish you had sunk your dollars in a cow rather 

 than in this book, for I have little more to relate than what you have already 

 read, and must say farewell to Africa, with its sunshine, its dust, its hardships, 

 and its many attractions — attractions now unhappily on the wane, for every day 

 that passes brings with it a growing throng of fortune-seekers and adventurers, 

 who, obliterating the landmarks of the past, gradually drive the children of 

 Nature farther and farther afield, and will probably continue to do so till the 

 whole country is bereft of the romance and the glories of days gone by. 





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Howe'er it be, it seems to me 

 It's not important to be new. 

 New Art would better Nature's best, 

 But Nature knows a thing or two. 



Punch. 



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