Sir Alfred, Lady, and Miss Pease, on ranch steps with rhino and lion skulls and lion skins. 
From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. 
British flag. They were being treated pre¬ 
cisely on an equality with the British set¬ 
tlers ; 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 re¬ 
spect, regard, and consideration such as that 
which, for our inestimable goodfortune, now 
knits closely together in our own land the 
men who wore the blue and the men who 
wore the gray 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 diffi¬ 
cult task of adding East Africa to the do¬ 
main 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 com¬ 
fortable; the floors were covered with the 
skins of buck and zebra; the chairs were 
home-made, as was most of the other furni¬ 
ture; the “rust bunks,” or couches, strong¬ 
ly and gracefully shaped, and filled with 
plaited raw hide, were so attractive that 
I ordered one to take home. There were 
neatly kept little flower-gardens, suffering 
much from the drought; there were ovens 
and out-buildings; cattle-sheds for the 
humped oxen and the herds of pretty cows 
and calves; the biltong was drying in 
smoke-houses; there were patches of ground 
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