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[photograph of a man looking at a flag with the British Flag and Muslim symbol]

Photograph by Melville Chater

THE FLAG OF A DREAM
The man is Rhodes's old body servant. The flag which adorns the wall in the empire builder's home (see page 404) was evidently an invention of Rhodes to symbolize some African imperialistic scheme. It may have been Rhodesia plus Portuguese East Africa, but more likely, on account of the Moslem insignia, it had to do with a far wider scheme.

[image of a woman tending to a large garden]
THE LADY'S RHODESIAN GARDEN
"The promised land," wrote Rhodes describing the nascent colony, "was an open waste. Everything had to be done." Nowadays gracious homes and gardens where English posies and South African flora meet, have created beauty sports of civic life in what was a wilderness forty years ago.

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