... the great dead, and have likened Oom Paul to Old Abe. That is very superficial. In so far as the issues of Secession and slavery have touched South Africa-and they are both ?? figures not on Lincoln's side but on the other. He is an arch Secesher, ...

... Perhaps none of the songs had been sung with more earnestness and even passicnate feeling at the time than those attacking slavery, and he believed that they had exercised some influence in moulding public opinion. Of personal favourites, The Ivy Green ...

... contrast with many other places where the BEcer domina- tion makes the native's life one of perpetual fear anic practical slavery. At Mafeking, before the quite recent days of its railway station, the traveller en route, say, to Khama's country, or Rhodes's ...