He speaks the language, and his professional business is with the Boers exclusively.

He told me that the ancient Boer families in the great region of which this village is the commercial center are falling victims to their inherited indolence and dullness in the materialistic latter-day race and struggle, and are dropping one by one into the grip of the usurer--getting hopelessly in debt--and are losing their high place and retiring to second and lower.

The Boer's farm does not go to another Boer when he loses it, but to a foreigner.

Some have fallen so low that they sell their daughters to the blacks." Under date of another South African town I find the note which is creditable to the Boers: "Dr.X.told me that in the Kafir war 1,500 Kafirs took refuge in a great cave in the mountains about 90 miles north of Johannesburg, and the Boers blocked up the entrance and smoked them to death.

Dr.X.has been in there and seen the great array of bleached skeletons--one a woman with the skeleton of a child hugged to her breast." The great bulk of the savages must go.