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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2; No. 6 April 26, 1939

Know this Place?

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Know this Place?

"These views I ventured now and then to express, but I had to be cautious, for the patriotism of the colonists was inflammable as gun-poweer. To be against war was to be lukewarm to our country, and half-a-dozen regiments could have been raised with ease in New Zealand alone, to march to Herat. . . . Auckland wearied me with its valiant talk. We had an officer there—an excellent fellow in his way—who had fought in our own Afghanistan wars, who knew the ground, and had maps, and posed as an authority. He proved to us, by argument completely satisfactory to himself, that unless we seized Russia by the throat and hurled her back upon the Caspian we were a ruined nation. Everybody seemed to agree with him, and I was a minority of one. I was relieved, therefore, when a message came from Sir George Grey that he was at his island and was expecting us to go to him without delay."

J. A. Froude. "Oceana." (Published 1886.)