If the young people can read and write, they are considered very good scholars.

This gentleman also expressed great satisfaction at Sir Alfred Milner and Mr.Chamberlain being at the head of affairs, which he said was the only thing that gave the colonials confidence.

Even now, so many feared England would give way again in the end.

I assured him of this there was no possibility, and then he said: "The Transvaal has been a bad place for Englishmen to live these many years; but if Great Britain fails us again, we must be off, for then it will be impossible." I was given to understand that the Boers exhibited great curiosity as to who Mr.Chamberlain was, and that they firmly believed he had made money in Rand mining shares and gold companies; others fancied he was identical with the maker of Chamberlain's Cough Syrup, which is advertised everywhere in the colony.
Early in November we had a great surprise.

Mr.Keeley himself turned up from Mafeking, having been given leave from the town guard to look after his wife and farm.