L'Afrique du Sud et le Transvaal war . histoire encore ; et après quelques années, nous devrions avoir été plongé dans une autre guerre des Boers.Mais Rhodes avait cerné les deux républiques boers. Le quarrelhad à combattre à l'intérieur de leurs frontières. Il n'y avait pas outletfor-les dans le désert cette fois. En dépit de ces catastrophes successives la société à charte et les colons ont beaucoup fait pendant ces quelques troublousyears pour développer le pays. La peste bovine et l'nativerebellion fait d'autant plus urgent de compléter le railwaysystem qui était d'ouvrir la communication avec la côte. TheCompany

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South Africa and the Transvaal war . story over again ; and after afew years we should have been plunged into another Boer war.But Rhodes had hemmed in the two Boer Republics. The quarrelhad to be fought out within their boundaries. There was no outletfor them into the wilderness this time. Notwithstanding these successive disasters the Chartered Com-pany and the settlers had done much during those few troublousyears to develop the country. The rinderpest and the nativerebellion made it all the more urgent to complete the railwaysystem that was to open communication with the coast. TheCompany hurried on the construction. In November 1897 theline liad been extended from Mafeking to Bulawayo, and in 1899the line from Salisbury to Beira was completed. Then the linefrom Bulawayo to .Salisbury was pushed on ; this connection hasjust been completed, and one can now travel by rail without chang-ing carriage from Capet<jwn to Beira via Bulawayo and Salisbury.Another line is beincr constructed throucrh the Winkie coalfields 64. > £ Rhodesia which will cross the Zambesi near the Victoria Falls. How shorta time ago it seems since the man who had visited the Falls wasregarded as a great explorer ! Other branches, too, will shortly opencommunication to the various goldfields. It is worthy of notice that Rhodesia, though the most remotefrom the coast, was the one State in South Africa whose industrieswere kept going during the war, so that the conclusion of peacefound her ready for an immediate expansion of her trade. Thiswas due to the wise policy of the Company. Early in 1900 it wasrepresented to the Administration that unless communication, whichhad been interrupted at the commencement of the war, was soon

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