Somehow the sea inspires confidence, and one knows that information imparted cannot, anyway, be posted off by the same day's mail.

So those who were helping to pull the strings of this ill-fated rebellion talked pretty freely of their hopes and fears during the long, dark tropical evenings.
I became familiar with their grievances--their unfair taxation; no education for their children except in Dutch; no representation in Parliament--and this in a population in which, at that time, the English and Afrikanders at Johannesburg and in the surrounding districts outnumbered the Dutch in the proportion of about 6 to 1.

They laid stress on the fact that neither the Boers nor their children were, or desired to become, miners, and, further, that for the enormous sums spent on developing and working the mines no proper security existed.

I must admit it was the fiery-headed followers who talked the loudest--those who had nothing to lose and much to gain.

The financiers, while directing and encouraging their zeal, seemed almost with the same hand to wish to put on the brake and damp their martial ardour.