He would, it was thought, be more likely to obtain accurate information if the principal purpose of his visit were kept in the background.
-- *Table Talk of Shirley, p.

142.
-- There was one great and fundamental difference between the case of Canada and the case of South Africa.

Canada had itself asked for federation, and Parliament simply gave effect to the wish of the Canadians.

Opinion in South Africa was notoriously divided, and the centre of opposition was at Cape Town.

Natal had not yet obtained a full measure of self-government, and the lieutenant-Governor, Sir Benjamin Pine, had excited indignation among all friends of the natives by arbitrary imprisonment, after a mock trial, of a Kaffir chief.