AT REST ON SPION KOP.
In an account of a recent visit to South Africa, Mr Oswald C. u_on. in the February "Comhill," tells of v visit he paid to Spiwi Kop:—"The long white trenchgrave, on the summit move one more, perhaps, than unv utheis in South Afnea. ilie men lie buried whor. they fell, in the very trenches in which they fought and died, within sight of tha goal they fought to win, and did not live to know Unit they had lost. And you will hardly hud in the world a grander sleeping-plat* of tha dead; tho summit, of a great hill where .in every direction the eve loses- itself in distance, a view 'of mountain and river not to be surpassed. And that nothing may be wanting, the turf among the graves is covered with wild flowers—blue bahuuias and golden everlastings." Natal people make Uie most of their resouix__ , and even the battlefields must, we are told," be worked to the be_- advantage. A hotel is to bo built a; Spiui Kop, and a road mad. to the top.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11535, 18 March 1903, Page 7
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