John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . ed of about twenty thousand men able to bear arms,holds his own against the British, has foiled them morethan once by diplomacy, and once beaten them in bat-tle on Majuba Hill. Mr. Cecil Rhodes, who drives thewheels of the South African chariot; Oom Paul, whoacts as a drag on these wheels. His Honor, the President of the South African Re-public, or of the Transvaal, surnamed by his peopleOo)n PauV (Uncle Paul), is a thick-set man, ratherbelow the middle height, who carries his seventy-od
John Bull & co.; the great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa . ed of about twenty thousand men able to bear arms,holds his own against the British, has foiled them morethan once by diplomacy, and once beaten them in bat-tle on Majuba Hill. Mr. Cecil Rhodes, who drives thewheels of the South African chariot; Oom Paul, whoacts as a drag on these wheels. His Honor, the President of the South African Re-public, or of the Transvaal, surnamed by his peopleOo)n PauV (Uncle Paul), is a thick-set man, ratherbelow the middle height, who carries his seventy-oddyears lightly. His forehead is narrow, his nose andmouth large and wide, his eyes small and blinking, likethose of a forest animal; his voice so gruff and sonorous,that his ya is almost a roar. From his left hand thethumb is wanting. It was he himself, when a child, 307 3o8 JOHN BULL & CO. who, having one day hurt this thumb badly, took itclean off with a blow from a hatchet. He barely knowshow to write, and he speaks in that primitive language,the Dutch patois spoken by the South African farmers:. OOM PAUL. PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSVAAL. I is, thou IS, he is ; Wc is, you is, they is. Uncle Paulseye is half veiled, but always on the lookout: it is theeye that he is obliged to keep on the English. Thewily one says he does not speak nor understand a word JOHN LULL & CO. 309 of English. I am willing to believe it, although thejoke is hard to assimilate. I had the pleasure of being introduced to Oom Paul by Monsieur Aubert, French consul in the Trans-vaal. It was in the Parliament, or Raad, during the fewminutes interval allowed to the President and membersfor a smoke between the debates. I begged him to 1 ^ 1 ku ft 1 t^^^^H^H ^L ^H |H^^^^^ ak. 1 -s 1^ :-T \ l€!^. l^WI^T^ e.^» •»«?-) ?Rf 8» - OOM PAUL S PRIVATE RESIDENCE, PRETORIA. give me a few moments interview in his own house,and he willingly made an appointment for five oclockthat evening. The editor of the Pretoria Pres
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