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their votes could be legally recorded。 I remember a piteous letter from a gentleman who had travelled all the way from Cornwall; reaching Norwich somewhere about 7 P。M。; only to discover that he must vote at Yarmouth within an hour; which of course he was unable to do。 When one considers how paratively small was the number of votes necessary to turn the scale in my favour; it is easy to understand what this blundering meant to me。 Still; for reasons that I have already given; I do honestly believe that all was for the best。

Although I might have done so more than once; never again have I stood for Parliament。 To tell the truth; the whole business disgusts me with its atmosphere of falsehood; or at the least of prevarication; and its humiliating quest of support。 In such struggles in Britain there is; it is true; little actual corruption; but of indirect corruption there is still a great deal。 From the moment a candidate appears on the field he is fair game; and every man’s hand is in his pocket。 Demands for “your patronage and support” fall on him; thick as leaves in Vallombrosa。 I remember that I was even pestered to supply voters with wooden legs! Why should an election in a county division cost; as this one did; something over 2000 pounds in all?

Some years before this time my brother Alfred conceived the plan of obtaining some great concession of land and minerals from Lobengula。 He was; I recollect; angry with me because I would not enter into his scheme with enthusiasm; and I think has never quite forgiven me my backwardness。 But I knew a good deal about the Matabele; also I held that Lobengula would never grant him what he wanted unless it was wrung from him by force of arms。 Indeed I am convinced to this day that no one except Cecil Rhodes; wit

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