The Daily Telegraph of Saturday last contains an account of
a conversation with some Boer prisoners on their way to Ceylon which deserves special attention as showing the real feeling of the Boers. "You will return," said the writer in the Daily Telegraph, "to find it all peaceful, and will live happily ever after under the Union Jack." " Never can we live under that flag," was the emphatic chorus of reply. " Yon treat the blacks, who are savages and murderers, as equals. In the Colony you will allow them to walk on the sidewalks. One might even have to sit next a black woman in church!" When you get down to the rock-bed of the true and un- sophisticated Boer's anti-British feeling it is always this. He wants, like the Southerner before the war, to be able to " wallop his own nigger," and the dread, and indeed the know- ledge, that he will not be able to do this if the British win make him ready to endure anything and risk everything. It is the thought of the nigger on the sidewalk that maddens him, not the destruction of the Republic or the lowering of the Vierklear.
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