The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . JMGCNI CASCADES. Estcourt,145J 3,833 ft. southward. There arc in the town three churches, four hotels,and at the station a railway bar. A commodious sanatoriumin connection with the Roman Catholic Mission has recentlybeen established near the town. The population is put downat about 300 residents, though on market days, quite a large. I-ARO SCENE throng of farmers are to be met in its streets. A librarycontaining over r,ooo volumes has been established, and manyother means of social and intellectual
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . JMGCNI CASCADES. Estcourt,145J 3,833 ft. southward. There arc in the town three churches, four hotels,and at the station a railway bar. A commodious sanatoriumin connection with the Roman Catholic Mission has recentlybeen established near the town. The population is put downat about 300 residents, though on market days, quite a large. I-ARO SCENE throng of farmers are to be met in its streets. A librarycontaining over r,ooo volumes has been established, and manyother means of social and intellectual amusements are a year an agricultural .show is held, when valuable prizesare competed for in every department of agricultural andpastoral industry. The Bushmans River, which flows by the town, takes itsrise in the Drakensberg, and its name from the fact that in themountain fastnesses of its source, those quaint and curioushuman pygmies called Bushmen, had their homes. A few miles to the north-east of Estcourt, the village of 224 Weenen is situated. This interestin<^ and historic localitycannot be passed without a few words of especial mention, forit was here, in the early days of the Colony, that one of thoseterrible tragedies, incidental to the establishment of a civilisedcommunity in a barbaric land, took place. Though this work is not a historical one, it is impossibleto pass over circumstances whic
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