ng now, for we
have made a rule that all the Kaffir farms on the Berg sound a kind of
curfew. It reminds me of old times, and tells me that though it is
peace nowadays we mean to keep all the manhood in them that they used
to exercise in war. It would do your eyes good to see the garden we
have made out of the Klein Labongo glen. The place is one big orchard
with every kind of tropical fruit in it, and the irrigation dam is as
full of fish as it will hold. Out at Umvelos' there is a
tobacco-factory, and all round Sikitola's we have square miles of
mealie and cotton fields. The loch on the Rooirand is stocked with
Lochleven trout, and we have made a bridle-path up to it in a gully
east of the one you climbed. You ask about Machudi's. The last time I
was there the place was white with sheep, for we have got the edge of
the plateau grazed down, and sheep can get the short bite there. We
have cleaned up all the kraals, and the chiefs are members of our
county council, and are as fond of hearing their own voices as an
Aberdeen bailie. It's a queer transformation we have wrought, and when
I sit and smoke my pipe in the evening, and look over the plains and
then at the big black statue you and Aitken set up, I thank the
Providence that has guided me so far. I hope and trust that, in the
Bible words, "the wilderness and the solitary place are glad for us."
At any rate it will not be my fault if they don't "blossom as the
rose". Come out and visit us soon, man, and see the work you had a
hand in starting....'

I am thinking seriously of taking Wardlaw's advice.

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