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Article: Impressions Of South Africa: Chapter XIX - The Orange Free State
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Chapter XIX - The Orange Free State
In the last preceding chapter I have carried the reader into
the
Transvaal through Natal, because this is the most interesting route.
But most
travelers in fact enter via Cape Colony and the Orange Free State,
that State
lying between the northeastern frontier of the Colony and the southeastern
frontier of the Transvaal. Of the Free State there is not much to
say; but
that little needs to be said, because this republic is a very important
factor
in South African politics. And before coming to its politics, the
reader
ought to learn something of its population. I have already (Chapter
V)
summarized its physical features and ...