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Excerpt from South Africa as It Is Uitlanders more than the French colony round Leicester Square represents London. And even in Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal itself, he never suspects that the gentlemen who invite him to a banquet are more than anything else bent upon convincing him of the innate wickedness Of Hol landers. And yet there is so much to be seen, so much to be known, in this country which has so suddenly emerged from unmerited neglect into perhaps a somewhat dangerous popularity. There is so much to be seen, there is so much to be known, and yet it is so difficult for the casual traveller, let his capacity be what it may, to get hold of the clue to a labyrinth which is well worth exploring, and which, after all, is by no means intricate. It is not with any assump tion of the possession of exclusive knowledge that these pages are projected. Yet it is surely not um reasonable to claim that a twenty years' daily contact with the political and social life of South Africa in almost all its centres - such an intimate contact as the daily wrangle Of journalism affords - added to a personal acquaintance with the great majority of leading figures in the panorama of political life, may be regarded as constituting some title to be heard. It may perhaps be regarded as a further slight justification for the present attempt that the writer has on a former occasion I endeavoured, not without some appreciation, to throw what light he could on a problem which is really not nearly so difficult or intricate as it has become the fashion to believe. So far as the principles insisted on in that former attempt are concerned they may be regarded as holding true to this day. SO much has happened. 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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