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thirty miles view over the veldt to the
Magaliesberg Mts. We have a large garden with
an orchard and a mealie-patch, and a cow
& 24 fowls. It is the only way to get fresh milk
& eggs. We have an English housekeeper, an English
maid & an English butler (all exported) and a
lot of Cape boys to look after the house. It will
be a pleasant rural life, I think, and very healthy.
The country, now that Spring is here, is very
beautiful - rather like the Scottish Borders, except
that there are no burns, and the air and the
sunsets are perfectly amazing. It makes me
dislike office work and long to go and trek
somewhere. Someday, when I get holidays, I
shall go off on a shooting expedition to the
Limpopo.

Now that I am on the spot, I feel a
great deal more hopeful about the future of S. Africa.
This dreary war is coming to an end, and I
don't think that there will remain permanent
elements of discontent, except among the rich Dutch