There is no doubt that the men who made the most mischief, and who for years embarrassed the President, were the "Hollanders," or officials sent out from the mother-country of the Dutch.

They looked on the Transvaal only as a means for getting rich.

Hence the fearful state of bribery and corruption among them, from the highest official downwards.

But this very bribery and corruption were sometimes exceedingly convenient, and I remember well, when I revisited Johannesburg in 1902, at the conclusion of the war, hearing people inveigh against the hard bargains driven by the English Government; they even went so far as to sigh again for the good old days of Kruger's rule.

Now all is changed once more, after another turn of the kaleidoscope of time, and yet it is well to remember that such things have indeed been..