Produced by Al Haines. *[Frontispiece: I advanced with outstretched Hand (missing from book)]* From the Cape to Cairo The First Traverse of Africa from South to North BY EWART S. GROGAN AND ARTHUR H. SHARP T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd. copyright info extra publisher info TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREATEST AND MOST FAR-SEEING OF BRITISH IMPERIAL STATESMEN, THE RT. HON. CECIL JOHN RHODES, THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY EWART SCOTT GROGAN AND ARTHUR HENRY SHARP. Government House, Buluwayo, 7th Sept., 1900. My Dear Grogan, You ask me to write you a short introduction for your book, but I am sorry to say that literary composition is not one of my gifts, my correspondence and replies being conducted by telegrams. I must say I envy you, for you have done that which has been for centuries the ambition of every explorer, namely, to walk through Africa from South to North. The amusement of the whole thing is that a youth from Cambridge during his vacation should have succeeded in doing that which the ponderous explorers of the world have failed to accomplish. There is a distinct humour in the whole thing. It makes me the more certain that we shall complete the telegraph and railway, for surely I am not going to be beaten by the legs of a Cambridge undergraduate. Your success the more confirms one’s belief. The schemes described by Sir William Harcourt as "wild cat" you have proved are capable of being completed, even in that excellent gentleman’s lifetime. As to the commercial aspect, every one supposes that the railway is being built with the only object that a human being may be able to get in at Cairo and get out at Cape Town. This is, of course, ridiculous. The object is to cut Africa through the centre, and the railway will pick up trade all along the route. The junctions to the East and West coasts, which will occur in the future, will be outlets for the traffic obtained along the route of the line as it passes through the centre of Africa. At any rate, up to Buluwayo, where I am now, it has been a payable undertaking, and I still think it will continue to be so as we advance into the far interior. We propose now to go on and cross the Zambesi just below the Victoria Falls. I should like to have the spray of the water over the carriages.