Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-03
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0lN.AIHIIIEE1E1E
Africa. the Boer and Briton are pain
fully working out the problem of estab-
fishing representative government with
/ equal rights to ALL that shall unity and
South African struggle. The process of
forming more perfect union from
the four provinces with their diverse
populations, resources and interests is
historically most interesting to the
American in the light of tho similar
struggles toward unity in the early DAYS
of the original Jealous and wrangllng
states of Tire American Union The
of Beers and Eritons. slowly coaiesr-
ing. the seven eight millions of KAT
frs constituting Il cloud that darkens the
political horizon. and by its threat of
storms to come tends TO drive all the
whites together
. For the benefit of the hunter and the
student of natural history. South Africa
is the land of the zebra and giraffe. the
! lion and leopard. the rhinoceros and hip
| popotamus, the haboon, the crocodile and
the ostrich also of animals of unfamiliar
| names as duiker. oribi. koodoo, harte-
beeste and wildebeeste. 1t is land in
which the imagination OF the novelist
may revel. In A Simpleton. Charles
| Reade that master of crisp and vivid
English, pictures the diamond producing
South Africa, with some alleged minor
| inaccuracies in his statements OF TACT
| upon which the Boer South African. Incl
dentally criticised as TO his cleanliness by
the novelist, eagerly pounces. But 1t is pri-
marily and distinctively the land of Rider
| Haggard. "a resident South African and
of the people of his imagination. Here is
| the site of King Solomons mines. here
| is the cottage at Pretoria in which jess
| lived. This is the land of She, of Allan
! ntt,f aim md of ho a
| Cmslopogaas, the Slaughterer.
| Pleasant impressions are left on the
mind by the ports at which the steam
er calls Of Funchal Madeira, one
remembers the cograil ride up the noun
! tain side clothed in luXuriant vegetation,
In full sight of the sea, among at
| tractive villas and gardens. and the mover
and exciting toboggan ride down the
mountain in sleighs whose runners have
| never touched snow. but which glide
smoothly down steep descents over the
| hard surface of cobblestones polished
| into slipperinesS by years OF friction
Beautiful Cape Town.
The picture of the harbor of Cape Town,
| with the precipices of Table mountain
| and Lions Head in the near background.
| and with the attractive city climbing the
| mountain slopes and adjoining them with
| the green of parks and gardens and street
| trees, and with the white and brighter
| colors of the buildings. public and private,
| will, like the pictures Of the harbors Of
| Rio de Janeiro. Naples and Constanti-
/ nople, never be effaced from memory.
| Then Cape Town is full Of sightseeing
| interest from the oldest structure in South
| Africa, the Dutch castle, impregnable
| when erected. whose corner stone was laid
| in 1866. to last years addition to the new
| Parliament building to prepare it for the
| sit mos of 10
1 of South Africa. 1t IS attractive In its
| municipal gardens, greenhouse and mu-
/ scum: in the tram ride around the Lions
| Head over kloof Mex, with fine views OF
/ Cape Town. returning by Sea Point and
1 mountain slopes looking down on the
ocean: and In the famous automobile ride
| over Victoria road around Lions Head
and Table mountain to Houts bay: to
| Constantia, with its old Dutch house and
| wine cellar and the government vineyards,
| to Tokai with its convict camp; to Muizen-
/ berg With its fine beach and bathing ia
! cilitieS. its view of False bay and OF the
mountains to the Cape of Good Hope. and
| the cottage historically interesting the
scene of the death Of Cecil Rhodes: to
| S.monstown with its navy yard. its new
| dry docks and it's British warsh ps. and,
returning, to Groote Schuur. the Rhodes
house left by his will to the public for
| the use of the premier of the Union of
| South Africa. which in Rhodes inspired
/ imagination was to be, and which now
| actually is: and lastly to the Rhodes me-
| moral. high up on the slope of the noun
| tain, with Watts statue of Physical
| Energy so emblematic of Rhodes, and
| with its eight lions guarding the steps
| ascending to the classic temple which Is
| TO contain the bust of Rhodes and other
| statues in accordance with the spirit OF
/ the inscription on the temple IN honor OF
| the great man who loved ana served
/ South Africa.
| This drive, in the diversity and at
tractiveness of its scenery. is one OF the
finest in the world. First from Victoria
| road the views of the mountains and sea
| are family suggestive of Capri drive or
of that from Sorrento to Cava by way of
Amalfi: then come views OF the VINEYARDS.
gardens. fields and forests OF Constant a
! then of the beach. the ocean. the bay. the
| mountains. and the Cape of Good Hope
| at Nuremberg. and lastly of the expanse
| of Cape Flats, Table bay. False bay and
| the mountains, which are the main COM
| ponents of the fine view from the Rhodes
memorial. Cape Town is the best built.
! the most historically interesting. and the
most attractive ail-the-yea round resi-
| dence city in South .\fri: a.
| Port Elizabeth is remembered mainly
| for its ostrich feather market. the lars-
| est in South Africa. East London means
| to the tourist trip in a launch up the
Buffalo river and glimpse at its beach
| and summer camp of tenters.
| Attractive Durham.
There is much of interest in prosper
| Gus attractive Durham. with IT'S fine arti-
| ticialy maintained harbor. its can
/ beach as seaside summer resort with
a pier bandstand children's padding pool
| and other appurtenances of such a resort;
! its csplanade. palm lined walk drive
along the bay: its whaling industry,
which puts two whales a day on the
! Bluffs landing stage. its town hail. with
! a great concert auditorium: its beautiful
| hin suburb of the Berea. rising from the
J halbor TO heights from which the finest sea
| views are obtained; its sem-tropical at
mosphere and vegetation; its mixed popu-
| lat;on of white. yellow and black men: its
/ hundreds of white-cad, red -Sashed, tur-
! baned natives of India as walters al the