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with fixed bayonets. At Bloemfontein
I was just two days too early to see
Andrew Macculloch, who is now up in the
Pretoria region. Lots of soldiers I knew came
in at roadside stations, formerly spruce & spare
young men, but now so ragged & dusty that only
their white teeth, clean nails & freedom from the
loathsome habit of spitting! distinguished them
from tramps.

On the whole I like Johannesburg very
much. The town is raw and crude, but the
air is so wonderful that a wooden shanty
looks like a palace. All the neighbourhood is
beautiful. We live out in a house 21/2 miles
from the town along a great fir-wood with a view
[crossed out] ww 40 miles of veldt ['with a view' crossed out] to a great
range of jagged blue mountains, which might be