n _ 1 I PAGE Castellated Residence in Zoutpansberg.................. 9 7
Magwamba Woman crushing Meal....................................1 0 1
Native Arts of the Spelonken........................... facing 1 0 2
Magwamba War-Axes...................................................... jq3
Magwamba Assegais and Shield........................................ 1 0 5
Native Iron-smelting . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 9
Magwamba Carvings .................................... 1 1 4
Apple-destroyers in Natal......................................... 1 1 5
Mylabris transversalis on R o s e ...................... 127
Kafir Shepherd 1 3 3
Native Policeman . ......................................... ^41
Glaucoma distanti . ..................................................... 2 7 5
Spirostreptus tra n sva a licu s................................................ 182
C o l o u r e d P la t e s :
Tab. I. New Species of Coleóptera.
II* Rhynchota.
HI* Lepidoptera and Rhynchota.
IV. Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera,
and Coleóptera.
U n c o l o u r e d P l a t e :
Tab. V. New Species of Arachnida and Hymenoptera.
G ood-b y e to the Tender,
CHAPTER I.
TO PRETORIA.
Sail for South Africa.—Passengers illustrate evolutionary factors in the
formation of a Colony.—Zoological observations at sea.—Flying-fish.—
Malays at Cape Town.—-South-African Museum.—Port Elizabeth.—
Different routes to the Transvaal.—Durban.—Railway views between
Durban and Newcastle.—Coach-travelling and its incidents.—Majuba
Hill and scenes of late Boer War.—Extermination of the ruminant-
fauna.—Johannesburg after the boom—Pretoria; botanical features:
design of the town.
On a fine June day in 1890, the ‘Norham Castle’
slowly hauled through the Dock-gates and steamed
down the river, to carry many hopes and fears to South
Africa. At Dartmouth our principal contingent of
passengers joined the vessel and we sped South. It is
a well-established rule that readers shall be spared the
dreary recital of a voyage that has now lost all its
romance with increased speed and additional comfort,
though a floating hotel was a strong contrast to the
surroundings of my trip to the • Malay Peninsula in a
sailing-vessel twenty-three years previously.