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To the Committee of the Distress Fund for South African Women and
Children.
I.- REPORT AND EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.
As I have been acting as your delegate in South Africa I am anxious to submit to you without
delay some account of the Camps in which the women and children are concentrated, and to put
before you the need for further effort on their behalf. By the kind permission of Lord Milner and Lord
Kitchener I have been enabled to visit a certain number of these Camps, investigate the needs of the
people and arrange for the partial administration of the Fund with which you entrusted me.
Considering the changing condition of the Camps, it is hardly possible to draw up an ordinary
conventional report. It would seem better to place before you what was written down day by day, as
it was seen and as it happened. Here and there foot-notes point out alterations or improvements of
later date. By this means some faint picture may be presented to your minds of what is being
undergone by the weaker members of two whole countries. Some suggestions are appended which, if
adopted, would go far, in my opinion, to alleviate the conditions of life in the Camps during the
months or years they may be maintained.—I have, etc.,
E. HOBHOUSE.
January 22nd.
“I had a splendid truck given me at Capetown, through the kind co-operation of Sir Alfred
Milner—a large double-covered one, capable of holding 12 tons. I took £200 worth of groceries,
besides all the bales of clothing I could muster. The truck left Capetown the day before myself, was
hitched on to my train at De Aar, and so arrived when I did. The first thing next day was to go down
to the goods station, claim the truck, and arrange for its unloading. This morning I have spent
arranging all my stores—unpacking and sorting them. It is very hot. I think the essence of delightful
work is when you quite forget you have a body, but, here the heat keeps you in constant recollection
that you are still in the flesh, and it’s a great hindrance. I did not have a bad journey from Capetown,
though it was rather a lonely one. Going through the Karoo it was very hot, and the second day there
were horrible dust-storms, varied hy thunderstorms. The sand penetrated through closed windows and
doors, filled eyes and cars, turned my hair red and covered everything like a tablecloth. As far as
extent and sweep of land and sky go the Karoo is delightful, but it’s a vast solitude, and in many parts
the very plants grow two or three yards apart, as if they shunned society. From Colesberg on it was a
desolate outlook. The land seemed dead and silent as far as eye could reach, absolutely without life,
only carcases of horses, mules, and cattle, with a sort of acute anguish in their look, and bleached
bones and refuse of many kinds. I saw a few burnt farms, but those unburnt seemed still and lifeless
also, and no work is going on in the fields. Really, the line the whole way up is a string of Tommies,
yawning at their posts, and these always crowded to the carriage windows to beg for newspapers, or
anything, they said, to pass the time. I gave them all I had, and all my novels.
. . But I must pass on to tell you about the Women’s Camp, which, after all, is the central point of
interest.”
THE BLOEMFONTEIN CAMP.
January 26th.
The exile camp here is a good two miles from the town, dumped down on the southern slope of a
kopje, right, out on to the bare brown veldt, not a vestige of a tree in any direction, nor shade of any
description. It was about four o’clock of a scorching afternoon when I set foot in the camp, and I can’t
tell you what I felt like, so I won’t try.
I began by finding a woman whose sister
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