A Winter Tour in South Africa

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Frederick Young. A Winter Tour in South Africa

A Winter Tour in South Africa

Table of Contents

THE VOYAGE

CAPE TOWN

KIMBERLEY

BECHUANALAND

KLERKSDORP

POTCHEFSTROOM

JOHANNESBURG

PRETORIA

WATERBURG

PRETORIA TO NATAL

MARITZBURG

DURBAN

PORT ELIZABETH

GRAHAMSTOWN

PORT ELIZABETH TO CAPE TOWN

CLIMATE

THE NATIVE QUESTION

RAILWAYS

COLONISATION

THE POLITICAL SITUATION

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

IMPERIAL FEDERATION

GEORGE BEECHING & SON, Printers, Upper Baker Street, London, N.W. FOOTNOTES:

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Frederick Young

Published by Good Press, 2019

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After another long night in the railway train, at noon on the second day, after leaving Cape Town, I reached the celebrated diamond town of Kimberley, the population of which consists of about 6,000 Europeans, with a native population estimated at about 10,000, chiefly concentrated in the mining area.

On my arrival at the railway station, I was met by the Mayor, and a deputation of the residents of the town. At a conversazione held later, and which was attended by over four hundred ladies and gentlemen, the following address was presented to me by the Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute resident at Kimberley and Beaconsfield:—

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