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Excerpt from South Africa: An Address Delivered by Sir Donald Currie, K. C. M. G., M. P., To the Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute at Their Meeting in London on Tuesday, the 10th April, 1888 I confess it was with some hesitation that I agreed to deliver an address upon South Africa. The political circumstances of the time render the task a difficult one. In addition to the Imperial interests concerned, there are questions now under discussion between the different States and Colonies of South Africa which involve delicate issues; and there are commercial and other rival ries which are, to say the least, embarrassing. At the same time it may be expected that there should be a readiness to meet the public desire for information, and for the production of such data as may be of practical value to those who have other than merely political considerations inrelation to South Africa. In fulfilling the task allotted to me, I can only hope to be favoured with the same patient attention as was extended to me when on the 7th June, 1877, I set before the Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute Thoughts upon the present and future of South Africa and Central and Eastern Africa. For about sixteen years past I have been more or less intimately associated with the material interests and policy of that part of the world, and yet my first visit only took place a few months since. I had no personal knowledge of South African territory when we met together eleven years ago, but on referring to your records I find it was possible for me to appreciate at that time, to some extent, the resources of the country, the characteristics of the people, and their pos sible future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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