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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 

 farms are few and far between in that desolate 

 region ; they grow Indian corn and a few peaches, 



