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What will help to make the settlement permanent is the

fact that though not humiliated, the Boers have been thoroughly and absolutely beaten, and by force of arms alone. They cannot nurse the feeling that but for this or that piece of ill-luck they would have won. The luck was all on their side. Again, they have no leaning towards any other foreign nation. They feel, indeed, that we are the one nation which has not deceived them and played with them. In the future the German and the Hollander will be anything but popu- lar in the new Colonies. The fact that over eleven thousand Boers remained in the field till the end is very striking. We shall not be surprised if it tarns out that first and last our opponents have numbered over eighty thousand mounted men.

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