[239] Tall, brown-skinned natives of New Zealand. They are a clever, cheerful race, very fond of games, riding, and feasting. Some of them visited this country in 1889, as members of a New Zealand football team.
[240] Louis Botha, born 1863, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
[241] Dutch farmers of what was formerly the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State.
[242] On August 7, 1914, the Prince of Wales founded a National Fund to relieve distress brought about by the war. He was its first treasurer, and he generously offered to pay the whole cost incurred in working the fund. Early in December 1914 it had reached £4,000,000.
[243] Close them up in ranks. The verses are adapted from W. E. Henley's "A New Song to an Old Tune."
[244] The Land of the Five Rivers, on the north-west frontier of India.
[245] Independent state of India, on the southern slopes of the Himalayas. It includes Mount Everest, the highest mountain of the world.
[246] Members of a secret society in China with the cry, "China for the Chinese." The German minister at Peking was murdered, and foreigners were besieged, and an expedition, in which British, French, Germans, Russians, Americans, and Japanese took part, relieved them (August 1900). China was forced to pay 64 millions of money.
[247] Native state of Madras, India; about as large as Scotland.
[248] Native state of Central India; nearly twice as large as Wales.