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Castellated Residence in Z ou tp an sb e rg .................................. 97
Magwamba Woman crushing Meal........................................... 101
Native Arts of the S p e l o n t e n .................................facing 102
Magwamba War-Axes . . ' .......................................................103
Magwamba Assegais and Shield'.................................................105
Native Iro n -sm e ltin g ................................................................. 109
Magwamba C a r v in g s ................................ 114
Apple-destroyers in N a ta l................................ 115
Mylabris transversalis on Rose . . . . . . . . . 127
Kafir S h ep h e rd ...................................... 132
Native Policeman . 141
Glauconia d i s t a n t i ...................................... 175
Spirostreptus tra n s v a a lic u s ............................................... -. 182
C olo u r ed P lates :
Tab. I. New Species of Coleóptera.
II. „ Rhynchota.
III. Lepidoptera and Rhynchota.
IV. Orthoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera,
and Coleóptera.
U n c o lo u r ed P la te :
Tab. V. New Species of Arachnida and Hymenoptera.
G ood-b y e to t h e T e n d e h .
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-Ai’rican 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 I Norham Castle f
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. I t is
a well-established rule that readers shall he 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.
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