Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 60959-h.htm or 60959-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60959/60959-h/60959-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60959/60959-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/cu31924083851547 Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by plus signs is in bold face (+bold+). JOHN CHINAMAN ON THE RAND * * * * * * _SOUTH AFRICAN HOTELS_ PORT ELIZABETH (ALGOA BAY) Palmerston Hotel Terminus Road, PORT ELIZABETH Close to Station and Jetty _Best brands of_ ... _WINES, SPIRITS and CIGARS...._ Porters meet all Trains H. HEAD, Proprietor CAPE TOWN. Princess Royal Hotel Corner of Long and Riebeek Sts., _Two Minutes from Railway Station_. CAPE TOWN. Newly Erected Superior Furnished Bedrooms. Fine Balcony Views of Table Bay and Mountain. Excellent Billiard Table (Thurston's Best). Good Attendance. Perfect Sanitary Arrangements. _SPECIAL TERMS FOR RESIDENT BOARDERS._ Visitors from England Up-Country will find Accommodation Unequalled. _S. S. PALMER, Proprietor._ EAST LONDON Hotel National EAST LONDON The most centrally situated Hotel - - in Town - - A First-class, Up-to-date Family and Commercial Hotel Large airy Rooms. Excellent Cuisine. Good Stabling and Billiard Room _Best Wines and Cigars only stocked_ CHAS. COLLINS, Proprietor BLOEMFONTEIN (O.R.C.) _Replete with every Comfort._ EXCELLENT CUISINE. FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL. Polley's Hotel MARKET SQUARE, BLOEMFONTEIN. Perfect Sanitation. Porters meet all trains. Under the personal supervision of the Proprietor, _A. E. POLLEY_. * * * * * * [Illustration: A NEW FORM OF TORTURE. _Frontispiece_] JOHN CHINAMAN ON THE RAND by an English Eye Witness With Introduction by Dr. John Clifford, M.A., Ll.B. And Frontispiece and Four Illustrations London R. A. Everett & Son 10 & 12 Garrick Street, Covent Garden, W.C. 1905 [All rights reserved] Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Bread Street Hill, E.C., and Bungay, Suffolk. _INTRODUCTION BY DR. JOHN CLIFFORD, M.A., LL.B._ _I have read the following account of the importation of Chinese coolies into South Africa with the keenest pain and sorrow. It is an authentic story of one of the foulest tragedies in our British annals; the witness of one who has seen the facts for himself._