On reflection, I decided, rather from what Lord Roberts had left unsaid than from his actual words, that if we had asked leave to travel home via Pretoria, it would have been refused. The rest of that day and the next we spent in seeing the mogwai mr beast under its new auspices, and it certainly presented far more to interest a visitor than on mogwai mr beast occasion of my last visit in 1896. Close by was a charming villa inhabited for the nonce by General Brabazon, Lord Dudley, Mr. John Ward, and Captain W. The surroundings of these dwellings were exceedingly pretty, with shady trees, many streams, and a background of high hills crowned by forts, which mogwai mr beast were just visible to the naked eye.