Emily Hobhouse

“ All agree that if the loyalists would be as conciliatory as the Colonial Secretary, harmony might return, but they go on rubbing in loyalty at every turn. To me it seems that the bitterness against England is far deeper and more intense than on my previous visit, the sense of injustice has gone in so deep that it can never be effaced ”

“ The most beautiful thing is the view from the stoep, which is of almost unrivalled beauty, across a richly cultivated plain with woods and fields to the seas and the cliffs of False Bay and beyond the seas the grand range of mountains around Stellenbosch. ”

“ They know nothing here of what is going on up-country, and on many points know far fewer facts than we English...But books are not easily come by; my book, MacDonalds’s book, Kestell’s book, Songs of the Veld and others-all seem under silent prohibition. The first consignments got in, but they were quietly squashed now, though if any bookseller chose to bring the matter into Court probably the prohibition would be removed, as was the case with Van Edelingen’s History of the War. But no one will take that step, so the bulk of the population neither see nor hear of such books. ”