e found in the Appendix to
this volume.]

[Footnote 31: Sir B. Frere reported after meeting the leaders of the
discontented Boers in April, 1879, that the agitation, though more
serious than he supposed, was largely "sentimental," and that the
quieter people were being coerced by the more violent into opposition.]

[Footnote 32: This Convention will be found in the Appendix to this
volume.]

[Footnote 33: Arguments on this question may be found in a Parliamentary
paper.]

[Footnote 34: See further as to this rising some remarks in Chapter XV.]

[Footnote 35: See Chapter XVIII. for an account of these beds.]

[Footnote 36: The salient facts may be found in the evidence taken by
the committee of inquiry appointed by the Cape Assembly in 1896. The
much more copious evidence taken by a Select Committee of the British
House of Commons in 1897 adds comparatively little of importance to what
the Cape Committee had ascertained.]

[Footnote 37: Of the many accounts of the incidents that led to this
rising which have appeared, the clearest I have met with is contained in
the book of M. Mermeix, _La Revolution de Johannesburg_. A simple and
graphic sketch has been given by an American lady (Mrs. J. H. Hammond),
in her little book entitled _A Woman's Part in a Revolution_.]

PART III

_A JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA_

CHAPTER XIII

TRAVELLING AND COMMUNICATIONS

There is nothing one more desires to know about a country, and
especially a new country, than how one can travel through it. There was
nothing about which, when contemplating a journey to South Africa, I
found it more difficult to get proper information in England; so I hope
that a few facts and hints will be useful to those who mean to make the
tour, while to others they may serve to give a notion of the conditions
which help or obstruct internal communication.

First, as to coast travel. There is no line of railway running along the
coast, partly because the towns are small, as well as few and far
between, partly because the physical difficulties of constructing a
railway across the ridges which run down to the sea are considerable,
but chiefly, no doubt, because the coasting steamers are able to do what
is needed. The large vessels of the Castle Line and the Union Line run
once a week between Cape Town and Durban (the port of Natal), calling at
Port Elizabeth and East London, sometimes also at Mossel Bay. Thus one
can find two opportunities