Port Elizabeth is a handsome town.  In the upper part of it, called the Hill, there are many good private residences, and an excellent club house, at which I stayed, and enjoyed the kind hospitality, courteously extended to me.

A large, well kept, and conveniently laid out botanical garden, which is much resorted to, is a great attraction to the town.  There is also an excellent hospital at Port Elizabeth.  I was much pleased with its appearance, and with the arrangements made for the comfort of the patients.  The ventilation struck me as being particularly perfect.  There is accommodation for 100 patients, male and female.  A well-arranged children’s ward, attracts much attention, especially with the lady visitors.

There is, in addition, a good water supply obtained from Van Staden’s River, distant about twenty-seven miles from the town, at a cost of about L150,000.

There are several Churches, including Trinity Church, St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, the Scottish Presbyterian Church, and a Congregational Church, upon which no less a sum than L7,715 was expended.

Previously to leaving Port Elizabeth, the following address was presented to me by the Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute resident there:—­

     TO SIR, FREDERICK YOUNG, K.C.M.G.,

     A Vice-President of the Royal Colonial Institute.

     “SIR,

“We, the undersigned Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute, take advantage of your presence amongst us to join in the expression of hearty welcome to South Africa, which has greeted you in the several towns where you have met the Members of the Institute, with which you have been so long and honourably connected.

“We are mindful of the valuable services which you have so long rendered to our Institute, as Honorary Secretary, the indefatigable zeal ever displayed by you in forwarding the interests of the Colonies of Great Britain; and that the success of the Institution, over which you now preside, as one of the Vice-Presidents, is in no small degree due to your exertions.  We venture to hope that your visit to South Africa has been an agreeable one, and that with renewed health you will return home to resume and continue the valuable services you have heretofore rendered, and that the Royal Colonial Institute may continue to flourish under the auspices of the distinguished men who so ably guard its interests.”

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GRAHAMSTOWN.

While I was at Port Elizabeth I paid a flying visit to Grahamstown.  A railway journey of rather over one hundred miles carried me there.  The railway runs through the veldt, where wild elephants are still strictly preserved.  There are said to be more than one hundred of these animals in the district.  They occasionally do great damage to the line.  During my stay I was hospitably entertained by the