South Africa - A Journey to Southern Africa

<p>It was in April of last year 1877 that I first formed a plan of paying an immediate visit to South Africa. </p><p> </p><p>The idea that I would one day do so had long loomed in the distance before me. </p><p> </p><p>Except the South African group I had seen all our great groups of Colonies among which in my own mind I always include the United States for to my thinking our Colonies are the lands in which our cousins the descendants of our forefathers are living and still speaking our language. </p><p> </p><p>I had become more or less acquainted I may say with all these offshoots from Great Britain and had written books about them all. </p><p> </p>