208 WILD TRAITS IN TAME ANIMALS. 



was desirous of "doing a deal" with him, so 

 as to improve the quaUty of Cape mohair. 

 When the supposed Machiavellian intrigue was 

 declared to be merely a pastoral incident of 

 the mildest and most commonplace kind, some 

 wise folk refused to believe that Mr Cecil 

 Rhodes and Dr Jameson would travel all the 

 way to Constantinople merely for the sake of 

 buying a few billy-goats. But the future will 

 probably show that this patriarchal piece of 

 traffic has done more for the permanent wealth 

 of South Africa than " all the gold of the 

 Rand." 



