. Il Sud Africa e la guerra del Transvaal. E Man, che ha concepito nel suo potente cervello un modo per liberare questo Augeanstable e trasformarlo in un'area fieristica comparativa. Il signor CecilRhodes è venuto - ha visto - e ha conquistato in tutti i sensi della parola.ha ucciato che la civilizzazione britannica deve essere estesa a questa terra-hinter-terra - come i Boers lo hanno chiamato - e, essendo un uomo acuto del mondo e nessun sentimentalista, ha sostenuto, inoltre, che la civiliza-zione britannica potrebbe essere fatta pagare la relativa strada! L'idea che il sig. Rhodes sia l'incarnazione a piedi di un ideale, senza ambientipersonali nei suoi schemi, è assolutamente assurda come sono Th

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. South Africa and the Transvaal War. e Man—who conceived in his mighty brain a way to clear this Augeanstable and transform it into a comparative fairyland. Mr. CecilRhodes came—he saw—and he conquered in all senses of the word.He uccided that British civilisation must be extended to this hinter-land —as the Boers called it—and, being a keen man of the worldand no sentimentalist, he argued, moreover, that British civilisa-tion might be made to pay its way ! The idea that Mr. Rhodes isthe walking embodiment of an ideal, without personal ambitionin his schemes, is as absolutely absurd as are the reverse pictures 120 Rhodesia—Uncivilised that have been painted of him. He is no angel and no ogre.Mr. Rhodes is one of Natures sovereigns, who, conscious of hispower and the limitations of human life, uses every minute at hisdisposal to write his name large in the records of his country. And, since his name is large, he wants as a natural consequence a largeand clear area to write it in, and that area he means to have!. Matabei. eland. Now, Mr. Rhodes had decided that the British were the bestadministrators of South Africa, and that if the British shirked thetask it would be undertaken by some other nation. He saw thekey to South Africa in his hands—he saw the Boer overspreadinghis borders, he saw Germans and Portuguese intrio-uinof for footholds—there was but one course open, and he followed it. 121 On the 30th. South Africa of November 1888, Lobengula, the chief of the Matabele, signed adocument giving the British the right to search for and extractminerals in his territory. Upon that the British South AfricaCompany was started. In 1889 a charter was granted by theImperial Government. The Company was created with a capitalof one million sterling. There were eight directors, three appointedby the Crown, and five elected by the shareholders. Mr. CecilRhodes occupied the position of managing director. In a briefspace of time the wildernesses and the forests we

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