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(3) Formulating some plan by which native opinion and interests should be represented in Parliament.

He moved the following resolution, which was seconded by the Rev. F. B. Bridgman and carried unanimously: "That this meeting of the Native Affairs Reform Association wishes to identify itself with the opinion expressed by you on the native question, believing that the points on which you laid stress are of fundamental importance, and hopes when the time is ripe to assist in putting same into actual operation."

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time to time emissaries of that class of sympathetic and experienced students in racial science to which Mr. Harris has shown himself to belong; and we hope that the brief sojourn he is spending here will result to his and our mutual benefit and instruction."

In Cape Town Mr. Harris twice met the Committee of the South African. Society, whose labours are guided by that sage counsellor Senator Stanford, C.M.G., whose portrait we are pleased to be able to publish. At the present moment the membership of this Committee is somewhat reduced by the exigencies of the war, but good work is being done by the Committee, and

we look forward to mutual activity on behalf of the natives in the Cape Colony.

Both our friends were privileged to meet most of the responsible leaders of public opinion, and thus gain a store of information which will be invaluable to our Committee in the task which lies before it. Lord and Lady Buxton extended pleasant hospitality on two occasions. The Archbishop of Cape Town, the Rt. Hon. John Merriman, Messrs. Theo. Schreiner, J. S. Moffat, J. M. Orpen, Douglas Buchanan, Patrick Duncan, Howard Pim, William Hoskens, H. Taberer, J. C. Molteno, Dr. Abdurahman and many others spared no effort to render the secondary mission of our Organizing Secretaries fruitful and effective.

Mr. Harris received a warm welcome from the Indian community in Mafeking, Johannesburg and Durban, who laid before him some of the disabilities to which these law-abiding subjects of Great Britain are subjected. They await patiently the termination of the war in the assurance that some, at least, of these causes of injustice will be removed.

MRS. HARRIS' JOURNEY.

THE journey to South Africa undertaken by our Organizing Secretaries. brought to their notice many questions of interest to the Society apart from the main object of their visit. Mrs. Harris accompanied her husband in most of his undertakings in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bulawayo and Salisbury, having in mind meanwhile the opportunities for gathering information and photographs likely to be of service to the Society and of general interest for public lectures.

Mrs. Harris writes the following brief account of her experiences

When it seemed probable that Mr. Harris would be forced to remain in Bulawayo for some time and would possibly be unable to cover as much ground as he hoped, or meet certain of the South African tribes in their own haunts, I set out to several interesting centres, where I had opportunities of interviewing the Native Commissioner and the Magistrate of the districts, besides receiving a warm welcome from the representatives of the various missionary societies. Thus, on the return from Salisbury, I visited Gwelo and Selukwe, at both of which places great interest in the objects of our mission was evinced by the clergy and the officials. Selukwe lies in a woody and mountainous district abounding in ancient gold diggings. Here the Anglican and Wesleyan Ministers had kindly arranged an interview in concert, and were prepared to do all in their power to further the particular aims which the Society had in view.

Another journey to Victoria, Mashonaland, and on to Zimbabye and

Morgenster secured the co-operation of the resident missionary, the Magistrate and the Native Commissioner. I took the opportunity en route of visiting the ruins of Gt. Zimbabye and subsequently those of Khami, near Bulawayo, and secured a number of photographs with the object of preparing an illustrated lecture on the subject of the ancient ruins of Rhodesia.

Later on I took advantage of the Christmas excursion to visit Livingstone and the Victoria Falls. At the former place Bishop May and the members of the Universities' Mission gave a sympathetic hearing to the account of the work which the Society had in hand. The Paris Evangelical

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Mission also extended a warm welcome, and it was interesting to note that they were in regular communication with our Swiss friends, particularly the Comte de St. George, who had forwarded accounts of the lecturing tours in Switzerland undertaken by M. René Claparède and myself. The Native Commissioner and the Magistrate were also interviewed here.

The Zambesi River and the Victoria Falls could not fail to be of absorbing interest, and though the wet season had only just set in, and the water was consequently low, the Falls afforded a commanding spectacle. A scheme has been inaugurated for utilizing the power of the Falls for the

Rand Mines, without marring the beauty of the landscape, but the scheme has for some time been in abeyance.

I took two trips to Cataract and to Livingstone Islands, the latter called after the great missionary traveller who, when he discovered the island in 1854, cut his initials D. L. on a tree which is still pointed out to the visitor. "The only time in my life," said Livingstone, "that I indulged in this piece of vanity." The island, which commands a magnificent view of the Falls, is in itself a charming spot, and abounds in orchids and maidenhair fern.

Some days later I set out for Swaziland, and was most hospitably entertained at Mbabane by the members of the South Africa General Mission. The journey from Breyten in the Transvaal, a distance of ninety miles, was done by Post-cart, than which in a mountainous country no more uncomfortable method of travel could be devised. The rivers were rapidly rising as the wet season became more advanced, and the prospect of a trip to Zambode to see the old queen of Swaziland had to be abandoned, for there the river was impassable.

The clergyman at Mbabane, who is greatly concerned with the welfare of the native community, expressed his opinion that the "Selborne Agreement" had so far operated satisfactorily, and no great manifestations of discontent had taken place at the necessary straightening out of the tangled condition of the land concessions. This was borne out also by the Native Commissioner. I visited the tin mines in the neighbourhood and some of the distant kraals around Mbabane. The country and the people were exceptionally picturesque. Leaving the country by way of Natal and Durban, I left the train at Ladysmith to visit the battlefields of Wagon Hill and Cæsar's Camp, securing several photographs of interesting spots.

At Durban a drawing-room meeting was arranged, and from the small beginning interest was created in the public meeting, to be addressed later by Mr. Harris, arrangements for which were soon on foot.

Visits were also paid to Ohlange, the native Training Institute presided over by John L. Dube, the American Mission at Inanda, and, on the homeward journey, to East London, where Mr. Orpen and Dr. Rubusana extended a welcome, and also to Port Elizabeth.

Many friends in sympathy with the work of the Society were visited in Cape Town, for which the week's interval between the sailing of the steamers was all too brief,

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