Excerpt from Sketches and Studies in South Africa
Some whose judgment I value are of opinion that the following "Sketches and Studies" may be of general interest. If so, it will be chiefly because the views and opinions expressed in them have been formed, not by reading books - although I have read everything on the subject which has come in my way for many years - but because I have had opportunities of conversing freely with men who know, on all sides of the questions involved.
South Africa is, for many reasons, one of the most interesting parts of the Empire; and it has before it - one cannot doubt - a great future. It affords examples of some of our gravest mistakes and gives us, therefore, lessons for the time to come. It is encouraging, as being the theatre of some of the most energetic efforts of Engishmen. I am unable to recount any striking or sensational journeys in waggous, or any hair-breadth escapes in pursuit of 'big game"; but to many it may be interesting to realise what rapid strides civilisation has made in a land scarcely known until recent years, and what a wealth of interest and beauty belongs to a region still - as a part of the Empire - young.
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