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IT is a standing surprise to the watchful outsider how little attention is bestowed on some of our colonies. For instance, to the Cape Colony, comprising vast, varied, and productive regions, we have till recently manifested profound ignorance and consequent indifference. When the Cape Colony was first incorporated with the Empire, it was pronounced “a bauble, unworthy of thanks.” Yet before the Suez Canal and the Waghorn overland route to India, the Cape, as commanding our road to India, Australia, and China, had a special importance. Even now it presents an alternative.route which under conceivable circumstances may be of capital moment.
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The Diamond Mines of Kimberley1. Nature 55, 519–523 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/055519a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/055519a0