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land, most of them by water—to German East Africa. 
But in the part in which they happened to settle they 
were decimated by fever, and their stock perished of 
cattle sickness ; and most of them had again moved 
northward, and once more found themselves under the 
British Hag. They were being treated precisely on an 
equality with the British settlers ; and every well-wisher 
to his kind, and above all every well-wisher to Africa, 
must hope that the men who in South Africa fought so 
valiantly against one another, each for the right as he 
saw it, will speedily grow into a companionship of 
mutual respect, regard, and consideration such as that 
which, for our inestimable good fortune, now knits 
closely together in our own land the men who wore 
the blue and the men who wore the grey and their 
descendants. There could be no better and manlier 
people than those, both English and Dutch, who are at 
this moment engaged in the great and difficult task of 
adding East Africa to the domain of civilization ; their 
work is bound to be hard enough anyhow, and it would 
be a lamentable calamity to render it more difficult by 
keeping alive a bitterness which has lost all point and 
justification, or by failing to recognize the fundamental 
virtues, the fundamental characteristics, in which the 
men of the two stocks are in reality so much alike. 
Messrs. Klopper and Loijs, whose farms I visited, 
were doing well. The latter, with three of his sons, took 
me out with pride to show me the dam which they had 
built across a dry watercourse, so as to make a storage 
reservoir when the rains came. The houses were of 
stone, and clean and comfortable; the floors were 
covered with the skins of buck and zebra; the chairs 
were home-made, as was most of the other furniture; 
the 44 rust bunks,” or couches, strongly and gracefully 
