Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
This extraordinary town does not disappoint expectations by its progress or present condition. It is in about as advanced a state as it could well be, considering the troubles it has endured. War and cattle-plague have retarded the progressive growth of a town that would have...
On my return from South Africa I was interviewed by a representative of _South Africa_. I had proposed to write on my voyage to England a closing communication describing my vis...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.I was fortunate enough to have an early morning (5:30 a.m.) interview with President Kruger before he departed on what may probably be his last electioneering tour. As he was fu...
2. CHAPTER TWO.The exploration and the development of Rhodesia have always been regarded by me with sentimental interest. Every new advance in this region has been hailed by me with infinite s...
3. CHAPTER THREE.The festivities are over, and the guests are departing. For seven days we have been entertained as well as the resources of Bulawayo would admit, and the Administrator and Commi...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.Between Bulawayo and Johannesburg there is a great difference. In common with some 400 guests of the Festivities Committee, I looked in admiring wonderment at the exuberant vita...
1. CHAPTER ONE.This extraordinary town does not disappoint expectations by its progress or present condition. It is in about as advanced a state as it could well be, considering the troubles i...