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The Cape of Good Hope appears to be at present

the Algeria of England ; only that the savages who keep our troops employed are not so warlike as the Arabs, nor endowed with such a leader as Abd-el-Kader. A perpetual movement, occasional successes of a paltry kind, lead to nothing decisive ; while the Governor seems, like a policeman, always to be out of the way when he is wanted.