TAILIEUCHUNG - A WINTER TOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA

The growth of the great Colonies of the British Empire is so phenomenal, and their development is so rapid, and remarkable, that if we are to possess a correct knowledge of their actual state, and condition, from year to year, their current history requires to be constantly re-written. | A WINTER TOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA BY SIR FREDERICK YOUNG . Reprinted by permission from the Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute with large additions Illustrations and a Map. LONDON . PETHERICK CO. 33 PATERNOSTER ROW . 1890. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS LOUISE MARCHIONESS OF LORNE This Volume describing a recent tour during which a large portion of Her Majesty s magnificent Dominions in South Africa were traversed is by gracious permission dedicated with feelings of sincere respect. Pg vii. INTRODUCTION. The growth of the great Colonies of the British Empire is so phenomenal and their development is so rapid and remarkable that if we are to possess a correct knowledge of their actual state and condition from year to year their current history requires to be constantly re-written. The writer of a decade since is to-day almost obsolete. He has only produced a current record of facts and places at the period he wrote. This is especially the case with South Africa. I have recently returned from a very interesting tour in that remarkable country. My impressions were noted down as they occurred from day to day. A summary of my observations Pg viii. and of the incidents in connection with my journey was the subject of a Paper I read at the opening meeting of the present Session of the Royal Colonial Institute on the 12th of November last. I wish it to be understood that the opinions expressed on that occasion were my own and that the Institute as a body is in no way responsible for them. This Paper has formed the outline of the volume which with much new matter from my note book I now offer to the public in the belief that the narrative of a traveller simply seeking instruction as well as amusement from a few months tour while traversing some 12 000 miles by sea and 4 000 miles by land through the wonderful country in which he lately roamed might prove of some use in awakening additional interest on the part of the general public to one of the most .

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