such
extensive operations. Tom and Dick are as great friends as ever, and,
when they can be spared, often go out together on a deer-hunting
expedition. Tom is engaged to the daughter of a trader in Newcastle;
Dick, laughing, says that he shall look out for a wife when he gets to
England. The prospects would be altogether bright for the emigrants
from Derbyshire, were it not for the trouble which the weakness of the
British government, in sending back Cetewayo to Zululand, brought about,
and from the increasingly bad feeling growing up between the Boers and
the natives, owing to the constant aggressions of the latter, and their
ill-treatment of the natives, in defiance of the agreements in the
treaty with the British government. If the day should come when the
natives at last rise and avenge upon the Boers the accumulated injuries
of many years, neither Dick Humphreys nor Tom Jackson will be inclined
to lift a hand to save the Boers from their well-merited fate. The
example of the successful resistance offered by the Basutos to the whole
power of the Cape government has had an immense effect among the native
tribes of South Africa, and sooner or later the colonists there will
have a very serious crisis to pass through. Dick hopes that this crisis
will not occur in his time, for Mr Humphreys intends in another fifteen
years, if he live so long, when his first-planted trees will have gained
maturity, to divide his great forest into lots, to sell off, and to
return to his native land. Dick quite agrees in the plan, and hopes
some day to be settled with an abundant competency in Old England.

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