As soon as we got under way and about half the distance to the coast, it is a two days' trip.
We heard so many rumors of Roberts's communication having been cut off and that the war was not over, that we thought perhaps we ought to go back-- As we have no news since except that the British are in Pretoria we still do not know what to think.

Personally I am glad I came away as I can do just as much for the Boers at home now as there where the British censor would have shut me off from cabling and mails are so slow.

With the local knowledge I have, I hope to keep at it until it is over.

But when I consider the magnitude of the misrepresentation about the burghers I feel appalled at the idea of going up against it.
One is really afraid to tell all the truth about the Boer because no one would believe you-- It is almost better to go mildly and then you may have some chance.

But personally I know no class of men I admire as much or who to-day preserve the best and oldest ideas of charity, fairness and good-will to men.
DICK.
June 29th, 1900.
DEAR MOTHER: We are now just off Crete, and our next sight of the blue land will be Europe.