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danger and losses in case of accident.
A factory for making the boxes in which the dynamite is shipped was supplied by American machinery entirely and this of so simple a character that each one was operated by a Native.
When we expressed surprise that such trusty work was given them the Superintendent replied that they did it more satisfactorily than white men for when once shown how to do a thing, they would keep at it for a hundred years, without once thinking of doing it in a different way, but the white man's mind wandered and while it was absent, things happened.
The sulphuric acid house was once filled with big and complicated machinery which inspired reverence for man's inventive ability.
All over the grounds narrow tracks were laid and on these small cars similar to those seen in mines were being propelled by Natives, two to each car.
These cars held the completed dynamite.
In one house under an earth fort like cover the storage is accommoted.
The great dread is lightning which is very common all over S. Africa and destructive.
In another house Natives were rolling the dynamite into sticks or tubes.
It was in the form of dough and is the form used in the mines, a stronger substance then [than] dynamite itself which is a powder.

The Superintendent's name was Mr. Cullen.
The factory provides all the dynamite used in S. Africa and exports some.
That means a very large amount as the mines consume a great deal.
On the return home we visited a building to be used as a miner's phthisis hospital.
It was beautiful and ought to prove alluring to the afflicted.
We then learned that the fine dry dust in the gold mines of Johannesburg produce unfailingly a disease called miner's phthisis.
If left alone it often leads to tuberculosis and would end life in any case in a short time.
The next day came the public meeting and I tried to do nothing else.
We had a crowded hall of representative people.
The Doctor had gone to Heidelburg to speak to a Congress of Dutch women and I therefore spoke alone.
Mrs. Krause presided.

The next day we went to the Country Club for lunch with Dr. and Mrs. Irvine, the good friends we had made on the Saxon.
We were treated to "buck cutlets" and pawpaw for dessert.
This was our first and we did not care for it much, [.]
The Club was a delightful place with many trees and the first real stretch of green lawn we had seen.
After lunch we went in the Doctor's motor to the Crown gold mine where he is in charge of the sick.
We were shown the upper or surface workings of the mine.
It bears little comparison with the pan washing processes of earlier days.
Buildings covering vast extents of ground are filled with machinery for the crushing and washing of the ore.
We were shown around by the Manager, Mr. Warrener, an American.
This one mine produces 250 thousand pounds of gold per month, the net profit being about 100,000 pounds per month and this is only one of many mines in this City.
2000 white men and 12000 Kaffirs are employed.
After seeing the assaying and other operations we were taken to the Compound where the Kaffirs are kept.
They work in relays so some thousands are present in the compound at any one time.
The chief interest centered on the cook house where they get their food.
In all other compounds visited the Kaffirs provide their own food, but here it is provided for them.
Very large kettles whish [which] would hold several gallons were placed in rows and supplied with steam for cooking the contents.
Overhead a carrier was connected with a big bin of corn meal or "mealie meal" and tavelled [travelled] on a trolly [trolley] over the kettles.
It automatically poured the meal into the kettle.
One row of big kettles was filled with meal poridge [porridge], one with rice poridge [porridge] and one with meat stew.
Kaffirs passed in close procession along one side of the building which was provided with a wall only about 4 ft high and an open space above on the inside and Kaffirs filled their basins with meal or rice porridge and added a dipper of stew.

[on left side of page in pencil]: All employees wear red coats or suits, so that they will not [quit] to change them.
When work is over bits of explosive might stick to them and produce mishaps