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I had a letter given me by a lady in London to an Indian, Mr. Gahndi [Gandhi] in Johannesburg.
I found that an Indian couldn't call on a lady at a hotel but Mr. Krause arranged a meet
ing at his office at 11 o'clock on the last Monday. I sat waiting some time when a nice
young girl, a Russian Jewess, whom I had met and knew as Mr. Gandhi's secretary, entered
She told me that he had come to fill the engagement but the elevator would not take him
up. I promptly told her I would call on him if she would guide me. She did and I went
(Miss Cameron was with me) into a side street and found him in a small building. He is a
practicing lawyer and I found his outer room filled with Indians. He is very black and
not particularly superior in appearance. He has been in prison because he would not sign
a registration paper which is made compulsory to all Indians.

Is the social ostracism suffered by the Indians due to the color of their skin;
their poverty; the kind of labor they do; or what? That I cannot answer. The S. African
world does not distinguish between the educated and uneducated, that is certain.

On the first evening of my stay in Johannesburg Miss Cameron and I dined at the
German Club with Mr. and Mrs. Gonsaulus the American Consul all being the guests of
the Krauses. On Saturday night before the reception we all dined with them at the Carl
ton. More could have been put into the time assigned to Johannesburg, but if that had
been the case I should have been a dead reformer.

As it is I have omitted to mention necessary letters of acceptance or declina
tion and callers of which there were several. I was much pleased with the City. There
had been rain and the country was green. The streets were asphalted and the buildings
were modern and fine. The people are prosperous and wealth is already dictating terms
to South African politics.

I should mention that during the week I had purchased a dress and had it made.
The style was early Victorian. We met a lady, Mrs. Curtis, from California who told us she was going on
our steamer and informed us that it had been changed to the Avondale Castle. Miss Cameron
and I paid a visit to the Manager of the Union Castle Line accompanied by the American
Consul who introduced us. We gave the gentleman a very uncomfortable half hour and he
was undoubtedly releived [relieved] when we departed. We took away little satisfaction.

I arrived in Johannesburg October the second and left with Miss Cameron on the
following Monday the ninth. We had been warned that the journey was one which made
"ladies sea sick" but we were not prepared for the rocking, reeling, drunken train. As
we were accustomed to all conditions of travel, we did not get sick but found the experience
fatiging [fatiguing]. The reason for the rocking motion was that we passed over a mountainous count-
[illegible] nets and that we must descend from the 6000 feet of Joburg [Johannesburg] to the sea level and the train
took a circitous [circuitious] route to accomplish the feat. The guage of all S. African roads is narrow.
We had no complaint to offer in regard to the nature of the train motion since we passed
through the most beautiful scenery we had seen in S.A. In the distance were mountains
covered with snow and all about us beautiful mountains covered with fresh grreen [green]. At last
we had come to a country where the rain had fallen and the grass had followed. The hills
were wrinkled and picturesque rather than grand. On every little ledge was a Kaffir village,
usually very small. Evidently the people had scattered to better enable them to find
grazing for their cattle. The huts were now of a different variety looking like the old
fashioned beehive and brown in color. The day was delightful and the night comfortable.
We arrived at one o'clock having had our lunch in the dining car. The town of Maritzburg
could be seen for an hour and a half before we reached it. It lies in a valley and we had
to weave in and out among the hills always getting lower and lower until at last we pulled
into the station. Our Hotel was a square built about a court, tiled and uncovered. It
was comfortable and we spent the afternoon receiving callers taking tea etc. The
evening was spent with callers also. On Wednesday, we made an excursion which we had long
anticipated. Accompanied by Mrs. Walsh and Mr Beverly, an interpreter we took the train