P-ITS MONUMENTS-DOPPER THEOLOGY-AN I

sdorp,

nd you are at once on rock-ribbed kopje or raw veldt. As you stand on one of the bare lines of hill that squeeze it into a narrow valley, Burghersdorp i

ouses are all one-storeyed, some brick, some mud, some the eternal corrugated iron, most faced with whitewash, many fronted with sh

till there, and the black man lounging by the leaders has hardly shifted one leg; pass by at evening, and they have moved on three hundred yards, and are resting again. In the daytime hens peck and cackle in every street; at nightfall the bordering veldt hums with crickets and bullfrogs. At morn come

oad-brimmed hats, corduroy trousers, and brown shoes; they sit their ponies at a rocking-chair canter erect and easy; unkempt, rough, half-savage, their tanned faces and blue eyes express lazy good-nature, sluggish stubbornne

e tombstone of the founder of the Dopper Church-the Ironsides of South Africa-and a statue with inscribed pedestal complete put up to commemorate the introduction of the Dutch tongue into the Cape Parliament. Malicious comments add that Afrikander patriotism swindled the stone-mason out of ￡30, and it is certain that one of the gentlemen whose names appear thereon most prominently, now languishes in jail for fraud. Lea

wore a collar over his grey flannel shirt, but no tie. Nevertheless, he turned out a very charming, courteous old gentleman, well informed, and his political bias was mellowed with a

natural that I-I, Hollander born, Dutch Afrikander since '60-should be as loyal to the British Government as a Britisher should be?

th. All troops are liable to panic; even regular troop; much more than irregular. But I have been on commando many times with Boer, and I cann

n, did wrong in 1881. If he had kept promises and given back country before the war, we would have been grateful; but he only give it after war, and we were not gratef

mond-fields from the Free State. You gave the Free State independence only because you did not want trouble of Basuto war; then we beat the Basutos-I myself was there, and it was very hard, and it lasted three years-and then you would not let us take Basutoland. Then came annexation of the Tra

his gold will be your ruin; to remain independent you must remain poor.' But when that was done, what could they do? If they gave the franchise, then the Republic is g

e the Boer north. But now the Boer can go north no more; two things stop him: the tsetse fly and the

here in Albert. My son is on commando in Free State; the other day he ride thirteen hours and have no food for two days. I say to him, 'You are Free State burgher; you have the benefit of the country; your wife is Boer girl;