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in the north and north-east, so that they remain numerically inferior to
the Dutch. If there was a Company with a man like Mr Rhodes at the
head of it, which would buy land and settle on it new colonists of
English birth, they would be all the time keeping up the equality that
is necessary to prevent the English from being Boer-ridden."

"Do you think Rhodesia would adapt itself to such a policy as well as
the Cape Colony."

"Quite as well. With the opening of all those mines reported to be so
promising, and with the vast advertisement of the opening of the
railway, Mr Rhodes ought to see that more miners have been coming into
the country than agriculturalists, and something ought to be done to
provide for the provisioning of so many people and keeping the prices of
food down by multiplying the producers of food. The country is just as
well adapted for them as any other in South Africa. If the Government
of Rhodesia neglect this, the Boers will go on filtering through the
Transvaal to Rhodesia, and the same mistakes will recur that have been
made in the Cape Colony and the Transvaal, where the settled population
is Dutch and the moving English."

AUSTRALIANS AVAILABLE.

"What are the principal countries outside South Africa from which such
settlers could be drawn?"

"There are plenty of people in Australia, for instance, who would be
very glad of the opportunity to settle in nice places in Rhodesia if
they were tempted to do so. You must show that Rhodesia is better than
Australia, where you have the fringes of the coast and the best parts of
the interior already taken up. You have only to go to Melbourne,
Sydney, and other large Australian towns, to find that they have a very
large population who do not know what to do with themselves or where to
go, who would be valuable to a new country like Rhodesia. Take, for
example, the people who went from Australia to Paraguay. These would be
far better in Rhodesia amongst Englishmen than in Paraguay surrounded by
Spanish Americans, whose ideas and modes of life are so entirely
different. When I was in Melbourne I had an offer from fifteen hundred
Australians to settle in East Africa. I advised them not to do so until
the railway was built. They wanted to start ranches and raise cattle
there, but I said their stock would die before they could reach the
pastures. In Rhodesia to-day, however, you have a country, to which
such people would be very