The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . d bluff-like buttresses ofNature jut out into a veritablewonderland of beauty, wherefoaming rivers, black forests,canons, and long lonely plainsare woven together into a masswhich only a trained pedestrianwill care to Little Buffalo River here plunges over a sheer cliff ofover 200 feet. Though this river is by no means large, it makesup for it in foam, sparkle and dash. It is environed by lonelyforests, whose silence is seldom disturbed by aught save thebarking cry of the baboon, or the wail of the zinqua (
The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide . d bluff-like buttresses ofNature jut out into a veritablewonderland of beauty, wherefoaming rivers, black forests,canons, and long lonely plainsare woven together into a masswhich only a trained pedestrianwill care to Little Buffalo River here plunges over a sheer cliff ofover 200 feet. Though this river is by no means large, it makesup for it in foam, sparkle and dash. It is environed by lonelyforests, whose silence is seldom disturbed by aught save thebarking cry of the baboon, or the wail of the zinqua (night-walking lemur). At the foot of the chasm a perfect mosaicof maidenhair and other ferns, and beautiful plants are tobe seen. Within a few miles circuit about six native tribesare located. Here the tourist, having studied the Christianisednative, can revel to his hearts content in barbarism as denseand unsophisticated as he could find in the depths ofMatabeleland. Women toiling in the cornfields, warriors inall the glory of plumes and spears, chieftains dwelling in. A NATIVE DANDY. hirneyhoitgll 133 seini-n>\al stale, war dances and barbarous festivals. If histemperance princii:»les are not, like the laws of the Modes andPersians, inialterable, he may partake of Kafir beer out of areal calabash, and recoij^nise in it the fla\our of stale another section the natives and their wa\-s will be touchedupon, but at present a (ew hints as to how to visit thedistrict ma)- not be out of jjlace. The journey must be madeon horseback. Fairly good animals can be obtained inVerulam at a cost of ten shillings ])er diem ; a native guide will cost fiveshillings aday ; w^hileten shillingsinvested inbiscuits willinsure himagainst priva-tion, as nativediet is notalways palat-able. Anhours ridewill bring thetraveller tothe MissionStation al-ready men-tioned, wheredirections asto roads maybe days walll^e sufficientto cover the Inanda Range is about 2,500 feet above sea l
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