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desire, and will find his flocks and herds speedily 

 increase. 



He may buy good land for from five to ten 

 shillings per acre, not an extravagant price it 

 must be admitted. Game of all kinds, from the 

 magnificent bustards and francolins to the springbok 

 — gracefullest of the antelopes — still remains in 

 abundance, so that sport, dear to every true British 

 heart, is not lacking. 



There are, as I have endeavoured to show, 

 indications that the good time of this neglected 

 possession is at hand. I believe that this generation 

 will see the Cape Colony, with its water supplies 

 — hitherto so wasted — enlarged and secured ; its 

 terrain re-affbrested ; its rich waste lands and almost 

 unknown back-country laughing under lusty crops 

 of corn, of bountiful vineyards and of fruit ; * its 

 boundless pastures fenced and nurtured, and ren- 

 dered a hundred-fold more profitable ; its industries 

 regenerated and enormously recruited. I see planted 

 there a fresh and ardent Anglo-Saxon population, 

 happy, prosperous and contented, mingling with 

 the descendants of the ancient Dutch settlers on 

 terms of friendship and good will. These things 

 are not as the dreams of a dreamer, but can and 

 will be vigorous and enduring realities. 



