And of those Englishmen who were attracted by the enormous mineral wealth which the country contained, a good proportion were not of the best class of English colonists.

Many a one who landed in Table Bay was an adventurer, drawn thither by the wish to make or retrieve his fortune.

Few came, as did Rhodes, in search of health, and few, again, were drawn thither by the pure love of adventure.

In Australia, or in New Zealand or other colonies, people arrived with the determination to begin a new life and to create for themselves new ties, new occupations, new duties, so as to leave to their children after them the result of their labours.

In South Africa it was seldom that emigrants were animated by the desire to make their home in the solitudes of the vast and unexplored veldt.