Excerpt from Travel in South Africa This volume is one which does not fall within any well defined literary category. Such a production is liable to be criticised less for what it is than for what different readers may think it purports to be or should have been. In the circumstances it may be useful at the outset to explain the aim and scope of the volume. It deals with travel in the Union of South Africa, without, however, any pretence of conveying the last word on such travel; indeed the volume is confined to what was seen and felt by only one party of travellers, and they did not see everything. There has been no attempt to describe the Union in detail. Not much, for instance, has been set down about the remarkable development, and the even more remarkable prospects, in South African farming, manufacturing, and general industries. These are diffuse, complex, and important subjects that should preferably be handled separately by competent authorities. They have therefore been reserved for other publications, and the present volume has been confined to the subject of travel; an account of the tour being given under the "we" of the party whose experiences and opinions are set down. The only reason for publishing this material is that as the party travelled the Union recently and extensively much that has been set down in these pages will, it is believed, be fresh, at least to readers outside South Africa, and of sufficient general interest to warrant perusal by whoever may be seeking a little-known but remarkable field of travel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.