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s been an interesting one. Most of it has been spent in places as far as possible from centers where conventionality reigns. My still unrecorded experiences include, inter alia, war, hunting, the administration of native tribes in remote areas, rovings under special commission in those waterless regions to the north-west through which the boundary common to British and German territory runs and perhaps most interesting of all, a microscopic study of human infusoria inhabiting isolated and therefore stagnant towns and hamlets. I intend to retire soon with a typewriting machine and some beehives, to a little farm I have acquired in a sleepy locality on the south coast. There I hope to be spared for some few years to develop the economic products of the honey-bee, to meditate on the Universal Postulate, and to watch, from afar, my children cultivating the difficult fields of Experience. May their task be easier than mine has been! Having thus taken the public into my confidence, I will say AU REVOIR. L'ENVOI As a pack of wolves is the hungry Past; It hunts Man laden with hopes and fears; Its bay swells loud with the hasting years, Till the red fangs sink in his flank at last. The bay grows louder, the flame ringed een Glow with greed as the night sinks, black; Swerve and double still o'er your track The pitiless, questing nostrils lean. Mark, O brothers, before I fall, I fling this sheaf of script to your care; Take and read it; I fain would share My scanty gatherings with you all. With all with the hunted, whose eyes search mine In vain for the hint of a 'scaping clue; With those still tranc'd, where the skies bedew The half-op'd blossoms that round them shine. Take my sheaf it was gleaned with toil From fields now dimm'd in a long-sped day; In a clime where naught but dim shadows stray Yet its grain may sprout from a kindly soil. UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON. ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REMINISCENCES OF A SOUTH AFRICAN PIONEER*** ******* This file should be named 23638.txt or 23638.zip ******* This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/6/3/23638 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and yo
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