The Conway log cabin., 1901-01-01

and others. The kafflr tongue IS very hard to learn, but is fine musical language to hear. These lower country blacks speak the
 Boe. tongue and have a strain of | their blood. The language of the
 country is the native Dutch, mix
 ture of Holland Dutch and Hotten-
 tot and other tribal tongues, and is
 a very harsh, hard language. A splendid tongue to use when you
 wish to curse an enemy Of to drive | oxen, but how they manage tol
 make love with 1t 1 can't under
 stand, but 1t is evident that they
 do as these Boer maidens (good
 looking, too, most of them) try to
 obey the scriptural injunction and
 are given ill marriage at an early l
 age. They are strong, buxom las
 sies, too, all of them. They can ride we'll and shoot well and have
 great large sunbrowned hands
 hands that could rock a baby or
 bring a husband back to paths of
 rectitude after the whole world had
 damned him past all redemption.
 But they have no special love for a
 volunteered ''redneck" (ravinek)
 so 1 can foster no matrimonial in
 tentions while ill this country, but
 1 should advise all those who have
 lost hope elsewhere to come to Al
 rica and be comforted, although it
 involves the learning of the Dutch
 language, as the females outnum-
 Der and outweigh the male portion
 by large percentage and is one of the many problems for the future, Now word to those who might take notion to come to this coun- try. If you have plenty of money or are a good mechanic, you can make good money and make it
 easy, but if one has to depend on ordinary labor for a living 1t is a good country to keep away from,
 as all the common labor is per formed cheaply by the black race. Mechanics do not work so hard in this country as in others and get
 fully three times the wages with living expenses (barring, of course, present eonditons) about double that ot the states. No one i'll poor { health should attempt to come to , this country expecting to stay any length of time owing to conditions of climate already described. The
 journey will cost about S2oo and will take thirty days from New | York to Cape Town, thence four , days travel by rail to the gold belt aboiit Johannesburg, and thirty { six miles further on and you are i'll the famous capitol of the Transvaal,
 Pretoria, twelve hundred miles , from the coast. No one should be , deluded by the idea that a sea trip , of that length would be a pleasure trip. It is far from it. A trip of week to Europe will do very well for pleasure, but a thirty day one } will not soon be forgotten. It was the greatest pleasure l ever had when I set foot on good, firm t ground again after trip of thirty four days at sea. We lost one day ? in the West Indies for coal and ? water and some time in fog off the Cape of Good Hope, and after t you get this distance away one will ? discover that the United States is much greater country than you : ever dreamed 1t was and that Un- I cle Samuel is gentleman very we'll known indeed and also very much respected and you cant help but feel glad that you are relative t of this well respected gentlemen. i l will soon again be back to civil life as have served now ten
 months ill a volunteer rife brigade and will have served my term of ' enlistment During this time 1 , have seen great deal of country , and great deal of war and have made the war serve my uses as l , intended, although l have seen . much hard service. After spend
 ing couple of months in civil life
 looking further over the country, I
 shall book passage homeward via a al.. lNzxs.A IL.