Froude found his position by no means agreeable.

Molteno, though never discourteous, received him coldly, and objected to his making speeches.

The Governor, who liked to be good friends with his Ministers, gave him no encouragement.
The House of Assembly, after proposing to censure Carnarvon in their haste, censured Froude at their leisure.

That did him no harm.

But he disliked the new position in which he found himself, and in his private journal he expressed his sentiments freely.
He had not been long in Cape Town when he wrote, on the 9th of July, 1875, to his eldest daughter a full and vivid account of the political situation.