Show PINGREFo VISIT TO AFRICA What the Lato Governor Found on His Travels New York June t9rJngree had nn extremely I In I terns tins experience Jn his brief visit to South Africa says a London cablegram He went out armed with recommendations from Chamberlain which enabled him to pas everywhere freely through the English line When lie left London lie Was fed with all the calumnies upon the Boers which have been resorted to to palliate the attempted extermination extermina-tion of HIP republics But the moment he got to South Africa the scales began be-gan to fall from his eyes I Recommendations from the Colonial I oOkc enabled him to penetrate regions hermetically staled to the ordinary civilian Accompanied only by his secretary I sec-retary l penetrated Into the heart of I the seat of war and soon hud an opportunity I op-portunity of waking Line acquaintance I of the Boers at first hand Extniorfll11 11 nary though It may be he was able to j lunch In the British camp In the morn Jngand I dine with the Boer commander 1 In the evening Jle found to his aton I j Ishruent that the Boers were by nor means so black as they had been painted < paint-ed They were IW no means devoid of j human Intelligence they dressed and1 wuphod like civilized beings welcomed I wHit generous hospitality the travelIng I travel-Ing American who found them far from extremists r r The commandoes ho visited I were well clothed and well armed everyman every-man possessing ut least two horses wJth a goOd reserve of ammunition They are safeguarding It no doubt 1 bit they slIII havf stores of Mauser I cijrtrjdges 10 fall back upon but for the 1 i present they are doing all their lighting 1 light-ing with JOMctfords and cartridges which they supply themselves with from the British stores It was Impossible that such a man at Pjngree could full to be deeply touched by the spectacle of these heroic burghers maintaining their struggle agaInst overwhelming odds < for liberty and Independence of their country He found no difficulty whatever what-ever In traversing the hostile linen he drove In a Cape cart with his secretary and son riding bicycles ad an escort Jt was somewhat perilous for them for the Boers have the disagreeable I although natural habit of shooting all bicycle riders on sight < fol with them I spy and British dispatch rider are synonymous syn-onymous terms It Is much to be regretted re-gretted that from the Interest of truth S and Justice such a keen observer 1 should not have been spared to return to his own country to describe the Boers as he found them In a struggle which inuat have recalled at every turn the stirring episodes in the war of Independence |