. Southern Rhodesia. t.—Financial basisof settlement necessary.—Definition needed ofBritish South Africa Companys holdings.—Ad-visability of Investigation into Allocation ofRevenue and Expenditure since Occupation.—Terms on which British South Africa Companymight be bought out.—Financial Problems underSelf-Government.—Effect on Southern Rhodesiaof a United South Africa.—Terms on which shemight eventually enter the Union.—Probableeffect of her inclusion. Postscript and Appendix ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS TO FACE Unveiling the Memorial of Cecil Rhodesat Bulawayo (July 7TH, 1904) Frontispiece Map of
. Southern Rhodesia. t.—Financial basisof settlement necessary.—Definition needed ofBritish South Africa Companys holdings.—Ad-visability of Investigation into Allocation ofRevenue and Expenditure since Occupation.—Terms on which British South Africa Companymight be bought out.—Financial Problems underSelf-Government.—Effect on Southern Rhodesiaof a United South Africa.—Terms on which shemight eventually enter the Union.—Probableeffect of her inclusion. Postscript and Appendix ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS TO FACE Unveiling the Memorial of Cecil Rhodesat Bulawayo (July 7TH, 1904) Frontispiece Map of South Africa, showing RailwayConnections with Southern Rhodesia On the Zambesi River The Great Victoria Falls Crossing the Drift By Cooling Streams The Ancient Ruins of Zimbabwe A Mining Camp .... Coach Travelling in Early Days Map of Southern Rhodesia . At end 1 20 96 198 208 234 272 324 The illustrations are from photographs kindly supplied bythe British South Africa Company\ and Mr. L. E. Tylor. xv. London- George Bell & Sons SOUTHERN RHODESIA INTRODUCTION SINCE the Jameson Raid in 1895, an^ tne Ma-shona and Matabele rebellions in the followingyear which terminated in the subjection of both racesto the British South Africa Company, SouthernRhodesia has come but little before the eyes of theBritish public. It is a country lying immediatelynorth of the Transvaal, bounded on the east byPortuguese East Africa, on the west by the Bechu-analand Protectorate, and divided from NorthernRhodesia by the great Zambesi River. In 1889 a Royal Charter was granted by theBritish Government to the British South AfricaCompany, authorizing it to take over the vast tractof country extending from the Transvaal to LakeTanganyika and comprising an area, which, aftersettlement of boundary disputes with the PortugueseGovernment, amounted to 440,000 square whole territory was named after the conceiverand founder of this great project, Mr. Cecil Rhodes. Rhodesia is divided int
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