My friend the judge seemed embarrassed, but I was delighted; the incident pleased me more than anything else that could have happened.

It was a nugget of information quarried out of Oom Paul, some of whose sayings are famous.

Of the English he said, "They took first my coat and then my trousers." He also said, "Dynamite is the corner-stone of the South African Republic." Only unthinking people call President Kruger dull.
[Illustration: Cartoon printed in the Cape Town "Owl" of March 5, 1898, in connection with an item about Captain Slocum's trip to Pretoria.] Soon after my arrival at the cape, Mr.Kruger's friend Colonel Saunderson,[G] who had arrived from Durban some time before, invited me to Newlands Vineyard, where I met many agreeable people.

His Excellency Sir Alfred Milner, the governor, found time to come aboard with a party.
The governor, after making a survey of the deck, found a seat on a box in my cabin; Lady Muriel sat on a keg, and Lady Saunderson sat by the skipper at the wheel, while the colonel, with his kodak, away in the dinghy, took snap shots of the sloop and her distinguished visitors.

Dr.
David Gill, astronomer royal, who was of the party, invited me the next day to the famous Cape Observatory.