. Our holiday in Africa . a slab of granite on which is inscribed Here lies the re-mains of John Cecil Rhodes, nothing more, for he whoknows Rhodesia, knows of Mr. Rhodes life and work anda eulogy cut in marble is not necessary. The whole hill is amonument to this, the greatest empire builder of our time. Byliis judgment and ability, while at the head of affairs in Africa,being prompt to decide and quick to act, a country equalin size to one-half of Europe was taken for the British nationwithout a shot being fired or a life l<^st. In going by train from Bulawayo to Kimberly, we passedthroug
. Our holiday in Africa . a slab of granite on which is inscribed Here lies the re-mains of John Cecil Rhodes, nothing more, for he whoknows Rhodesia, knows of Mr. Rhodes life and work anda eulogy cut in marble is not necessary. The whole hill is amonument to this, the greatest empire builder of our time. Byliis judgment and ability, while at the head of affairs in Africa,being prompt to decide and quick to act, a country equalin size to one-half of Europe was taken for the British nationwithout a shot being fired or a life l<^st. In going by train from Bulawayo to Kimberly, we passedthrough Mafeking. This was the place that General BadenPowell, during the Boer war, held for a number of months,with only eight hundred men. It now has a population of sixthousand, and is the chief business center of the western Trans-vaal. We also saw the place where the first gun of the BoerWar was fired. A\e ha\-e met many men that \\ere in the war,and it was interesting to hear them talk aliout it. lOI OLR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA. KIMBERLY We arrived at this most important diamond mining placein the world, on March 28, 1912, after a long, tiresome jour-ney by rail from Bulawayo a distance of seven hundred miles,time two days and one night; average speed at little less thantwenty miles per hour, through a most unattractive, dustycountry. This little city, with its thirty-four thousand popu-lation, is known everywhere. It was brought into existencein 1870, when diamonds were first discovered here. The firstyear The Star of the South African Diamond Mines w^asdiscovered, and this, with other valuable diamond finds, start-ed a great rush to this point, which created a big mining campand developed into the city of Kimberly. It is a pretty littlecity with streets \ery irregular and shaded by lovely peppertrees. There is, within a radius of three and one-half miles,the DeBeers, the Kimberly. the Wesselton. the Bultfonteinand the Dutoitspan, all celebrated diamond mines, and now areowned by th
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