The sun came out, and it was just as hot by noon as it had been cold at night.
"We stopped at Cradock a little time, where a gentleman interviewed me with regard to 80,000 acres of land possessed by some syndicate of the town at Prieska, up beyond Kimberley.

This kind of thing happens almost every day.
"At a station a little further on quite a crowd of Salvationists and others had gathered.

I could not see any sign of a town beyond two or three shanties.

I used to think some of the places that had been dignified by the name of 'cities' in Canada were rather grotesque; but here it is carried to a greater extreme.

However, they must have some method of distinguishing the place of ingress and egress from the train, and perhaps they are named in the hope of becoming what they are said to be--things that are spoken of as if they were.
"Well, on the platform was as picturesque and motley a crowd as well could be imagined.