"I can only say of the South African Constabulary that it is not formed on lines exactly identical with any other Police Force, although in many respects similar to some. "A Military Mounted Police is a bugbear to most administrators, as being an expensive luxury; but I think that it is rather like what a steam-engine is to a Boer farmer--once he knows how to apply it to the many uses of which it is capable, independent of what has been the practice of his predecessors--it will be found to be an economy in place of a luxury. "I have schemed the South African Constabulary to that end, viz., as the machinery for performing many duties not hitherto included in the province of Police; and my one hope is that it may be found effective for the purpose. "It is the best paid force of its kind, and by careful selection and elimination I expect it to be the best in quality. "It numbers at present 10,000 whites and 1000 natives, but these numbers will be liable to alterations as the country progresses. "It is divided into four separate self-contained Divisions carrying out the duties of District and Town Police in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, together with their subordinate departments of Criminal Investigation and Intelligence, and many minor and temporary duties, such as medical, agricultural, and veterinary, postal and customs, sanitary, public works, &c. &c. "With a good Reserve, as the Force will shortly have, of men settled in the country in civil situations, and with its married establishment of 600 families, the South African Constabulary will also take an important share in the development of the Colony, and will at the same time be in a position to supply a well-trained mounted force for military work should emergency arise."