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before I got free from them. Next day I got about
midday to Charly Leslie's farm (a son of Leslie of Kininvie)
& was very hospitably treated. I went over to see old
Forbes of Atholl, a Highlander who owns about 500
square miles & is worth about a million - a fine old
fellow with a very nice family. Him and me had a
long crack about Rannoch. Next day I struggled
through a storm to Piet Retief on the Zululand border,
and next day through magnificent mountain scenery to
Wakkerstroom, & the day after to Volkrust on the
railway. When I was waiting at Volkrust station
a superintendant came & said the manager of the
hotel would like to be introduced to me. He
turned out to be a man Cumming, who married
a daughter of old James Smith, Grocer in the
Back Street. He seems to be doing well, &
he is sending his son to Cambridge this year.
I spent the next night at Standerton going over