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Henry M. Stanley. Through South Africa
Through South Africa
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter One
Bulawayo, November 5, 1897
Bulawayo
The New Railway
In one of the Cape Specials
A Message to Mr Labouchere
The Capabilities of Bechuanaland
Mafeking
In Khama’s Country
What Water Storage would do
Pauperising the Native
Nearing Bulawayo
Sir A. Milner at Bulawayo
Chapter Two
Bulawayo, November 10, 1897 “Rhodesia has a Great Agricultural Future before It.”
The Opening of the Bulawayo Railway “Few Events of the Century Surpass it in Interest and Importance.”
An Embryo State “Fairly Started into Existence.”
“Enormous Possibilities in View.”
The Founding of Rhodesia will cause a Re-Shaping of Policies
The Lesson for Portugal
Lessons to Northern Neighbours
How an Enlightened Transvaal should view the Spread of Free Institutions in the North
The Cape and German Pushfulness
Bulawayo reminds Mr Stanley of Winnipeg
Prices of Property and Stands in Bulawayo
Hotel Life at Bulawayo
Prices of Living and Wages at Bulawayo
Bulawayo’s Buildings and Institutions
Bulawayo’s Great Defect.—Better Water Supply Imperative
Lo Ben’s Kraal
From Cape Town to Bulawayo Mr Rhodes Spoken of “With Unqualified Admiration.”
Chapter Three
Bulawayo, November 11, 1897. The New Era in Rhodesia
Noble Timber in Rhodesia
A Magnificent Forest of Teak
Plenty of Evidences of Gold
“The Best Mines in Rhodesia.”
The Unreliability of Assays
Chapter Four
Letter from Johannesburg. Go-ahead Bulawayo
Johannesburg’s Wrongs
Contact brings Conviction
Johannesburg Early Last Month
Effects of Bad Times
And Another’s
Passing Customs at Vereeniging
Getting News from the Rand
A Panoramic View of the Mines
Population and Area of Johannesburg
The Streets of Johannesburg
Johannesburg as it was and is
Krupp Guns in Eden
Then and Now
Johannesburg and its Great Industry “Subject to Senile Madness and Boorish Insensibility.”
“Overmastering Surprise” at the State of Things on the Rand
Nailing it with Scripture
Kruger’s Cant
Two Millions on Forts while People Starve
That Corner-Stone
Wolf!
The Dynamite Disgrace
The Presidential Dotard will be Elected a Fourth Time
My Advice to “The Bright, Clever Men at Johannesburg.”
Chapter Five
Pretoria, South African Republic. November 23, 1897. Paul and his Oil Painting
The Transvaal “Sir Oracle.”
The “Humbug Pose.”
Look on this Picture and—
On This
Kruger’s “Strength.”
The Efforts to Educate Kruger
Mr Chamberlain and the President
Paul’s Spoof
“A Boer Machiavelli.”
How the Convention was Contravened
The Racial War Bogey
The Laws of “A Choleric, Obstinate Old Man.”
Uitlanders’ Rights secured by a Solemn Convention
What Kruger’s Policy will Lead to
Those who Pay the Piper
Kruger’s Cant
Mr Chamberlain’s Lost Opportunity
Force no Remedy
Salvation Lies in a United Johannesburg, Passively Resisting Tyranny
Chapter Six
Summary of a Few Impressions
The Labour Question in Natal
Natal should be Better Advertised
More Settlers Wanted in South Africa
Immigration Wanted to Counterbalance Boer Influence
A Hint to Downing Street
Australians Available
Charming East London
How Farmers Make Profits
Rhodesia in the Hands of Land Grabbers
What the Chartered Company should do
Rhodesian Railways
Black and White
