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good spirits from Port Elizabeth.

I personally believe, and said so at
the time, that the Johannesburg Plot was
nonsense - the fiction of a few harebrained
colonials who find disloyalty and treason
in a dog's barking. That I was right
is shown by how little has come of it, -
a few trumpery sentences for hasty words.
But then the violent man out here will tell you I am
a pro-Boer, merely because I insist that
no reconstruction is complete without taking
account of the Boer. I believe his fangs are
drawn and that in the future he will be
the least dangerous element in S. Africa. So
thinks Lord K, and so think H.E. at the