r stand still where we were till the storm was over and the
moon rose; but I knew the moon would not rise till 10.30, and we
were already about eighteen miles from anywhere!

"My entreaties that he should proceed met with success, and the
result that we lost the road twice, got into a deep hole and
capsized--the whole caboose.

"When at last we reached the farm, it was to be met with the
announcement that Mr. ---- had left there the previous day, and was
believed now to be about twenty-six miles (three hours nearly)
further on.

"I was soaked to the skin, as hungry as a hunter, and dead beat
into the bargain. The farm manager insisted that I must stay the
night--it was imposible to go on in that storm--and go on in the
morning.

"This is a little world. Mr. ---- had mentioned my name in speaking
to him of The General's visit to Johannesburg, and he had
remembered it as that of the only Salvation Army Officer from whom
he had ever received a letter. Ten years ago or more he had
addressed some inquiry or other to Headquarters, and I had written
him in reply.

"The next morning I drove on to -----, and found Mr. ----in his
orchard. He had not received The General's wire saying I was coming
for the simple reason that, not wanting to be bothered with mails
or telegrams for a couple of days, he had instructed the post
office people to forward all his dispatches to a place which he did
not intend to go until the next day!"

If public receptions at railway stations, speeches and addresses by
Governors, Mayors, and Ministers, and Press eulogies could have
satisfied him, The General could not but have been delighted with South
Africa, as the following extracts may show. In _The Ladysmith Gazette_
we read:--

"General Booth has flashed past Ladysmith like a meteor, but I am
inclined to think he has left a trail of light behind him. It is
fifteen years since I last saw the Leader of The Salvation Army.
Those fifteen years have made but little alteration in the man.
There is the same old Saxon profile, the same storm-defying,
weather-beaten, almost eagle-eyed features, and the same slightly
rasping, but intensely interesting in its earnestness, voice.

"There is plenty of strength still in that patriarchal figure, and
with the exception of a slight stoop T