n in the numbers of the
game, any more than the deaths of many of the Bakwains who persisted,
in spite of every remonstrance, in eating the dead meat, caused any
sensible decrease in the strength of the tribe.

The farms of the Boers consist generally of a small patch of cultivated
land in the midst of some miles of pasturage. They are thus less an
agricultural than a pastoral people. Each farm must have its fountain;
and where no such supply of water exists, the government lands are
unsalable. An acre in England is thus generally more valuable than a
square mile in Africa. But the country is prosperous, and capable of
great improvement. The industry of the Boers augurs well for the future
formation of dams and tanks, and for the greater fruitfulness that would
certainly follow.

As cattle and sheep farmers the colonists are very successful. Larger
and larger quantities of wool are produced annually, and the value of
colonial farms increases year by year. But the system requires that
with the increase of the population there should be an extension of
territory. Wide as the country is, and thinly inhabited, the farmers
feel it to be too limited, and they are gradually spreading to the
north. This movement proves prejudicial to the country behind, for
labor, which would be directed to the improvement of the colony, is
withdrawn and expended in a mode of life little adapted to the exercise
of industrial habits. That, however, does not much concern the rest of
mankind. Nor does it seem much of an evil for men who cultivate the soil
to claim a right to appropriate lands for tillage which other men only
hunt over, provided some compensation for the loss of sustenance be
awarded. The original idea of a title seems to have been that "subduing"
or cultivating gave that right. But this rather Chartist principle must
be received with limitations, for its recognition in England would lead
to the seizure of all our broad ancestral acres by those who are
willing to cultivate them. And, in the case under consideration, the
encroachments lead at once to less land being put under the plow than
is subjected to the native hoe, for it is a fact that the Basutos and
Zulus, or Caffres of Natal, cultivate largely, and undersell our farmers
wherever they have a fair field and no favor.

Before we came to the Orange River we saw the last portion of a
migration of springbucks ('Gazella euchore', or tsepe). They come from
the great Kalahari De