South Africa and its future . ansvaal War had been followed by a period of extraordinaryapathy both in England and in the Cape Colony. No one seemedto care in the least what became of the territory lying beyond ourthen limits. At home men were sick of the very name of South 55 South Africa and its Future Africa. Many would have gladly abandoned all our possessionsabout the Cape of Storms, and abdicated an Empire which seemedto brinor us nothin«- but futile wars, disaster, and disgrace. It wasat this critical period that Mr. Rhodes came to the front to save oursupremacy in South Africa—too late
South Africa and its future . ansvaal War had been followed by a period of extraordinaryapathy both in England and in the Cape Colony. No one seemedto care in the least what became of the territory lying beyond ourthen limits. At home men were sick of the very name of South 55 South Africa and its Future Africa. Many would have gladly abandoned all our possessionsabout the Cape of Storms, and abdicated an Empire which seemedto brinor us nothin«- but futile wars, disaster, and disgrace. It wasat this critical period that Mr. Rhodes came to the front to save oursupremacy in South Africa—too late, indeed, to save for us much thatshould have been ours; too late, for example, to secure our sovereigntyover Namaqualand and Damaraland, territories which had been longrecognised as being within Britains sphere of influence, whichformerly had been annexed to the Cape, but which latterly hadbeen totally neglected both by the Imperial and Cape Governments,so that the watchful Germans were left at liberty, first to establish. Five-Mile Spruit on Melsetter Road, Rhodesia their trading missions, and finally to assert their sovereignty overthose extensive reofions. The richness and beauty of the highlands, extending over animmense area both north and south of the Zambesi, had for manyyears been known to both English and Boer travellers. Mr,Rhodes, in his early days at Kimberley, met many an adventurouswanderer who had come from that wonderful region, and theirglowing tales perhaps first inspired in him that ambitious dreamof the creation of a great new British colony that should includeall the finest country in South and Central Africa. As far back as1882, having commenced to take an active part in Cape politics,Mr. Rhodes took the initial steps towards the attainment of the oneabsorbing purpose of his life. 56 .
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