Silver Trees. (These trees grow only on the slopes of Table Mountain.)
prehension
of great financial undertakings. Both had, too, the essential poise and
accuracy of judgment that shuns pitfalls and punctures illusions. With
variant motives they sought the same end of great riches : one for the
sheer satisfaction of money making, of unfolding great schemes of
production and flotation, of proving to the world that he was a master
of finance; the other chiefly as a means to reach ends of Imperial
scope, to throw the searchlights of civilization into every cranny of
the Dark Continent, to lift the prodigious dead weight of unnumbered
