Of course, if we get tired on the way up we may go straight on from Port Said to Marseilles and so to London.

It seems funny to look upon Port Said as being at home, but from this distance it seems as near New York as Boston-- You will get this when we reach Zanzibar or later and we will cable when we can.
DICK.
It was said at the time that Richard left the British forces because the censors would not permit him to send out the truth about Buller's advance, and that the English officials resented his going to report the war from the Boer side.

The first statement my brother flatly denied, and the fact that it was through the direct intervention of Sir Alfred Milner, assisted by the efforts of our consul Adelbert S.Hay at Pretoria, that Richard was enabled to reach the Boer capital seems to prove the latter charge equally false.

Although throughout the war my brother's sympathies were with the Boers, and in spite of the fact that the papers he represented wanted him to report the war from the Boer side, he persisted in going at first with the British forces.

His reasons were that he wished to see a great army, with all modern equipment in action, and that practically all of his English friends were with the British army.