Africa . thirty arerequired to get over the steep hills lying to the north-west. Each waggon is attended by two Kafirs, one actingas a guide, the other as driver, with a whip from 30 to45 feet long. The skilful/ handling of such a lash is awork of art which the native acquires by constantpractice from his childhood upwards, but, notwithstandingthis, the Kafirs never equal the whites in their manage-ment of a team. 12. The Drakcnberg. Xatal is separated from the Zulu Kafirs by the riverTugela, and from the Orange Kepublic by the Drakenbergrange, which looks like a perpendicular wall bounding th
Africa . thirty arerequired to get over the steep hills lying to the north-west. Each waggon is attended by two Kafirs, one actingas a guide, the other as driver, with a whip from 30 to45 feet long. The skilful/ handling of such a lash is awork of art which the native acquires by constantpractice from his childhood upwards, but, notwithstandingthis, the Kafirs never equal the whites in their manage-ment of a team. 12. The Drakcnberg. Xatal is separated from the Zulu Kafirs by the riverTugela, and from the Orange Kepublic by the Drakenbergrange, which looks like a perpendicular wall bounding thehorizon westwards. It is, properly speaking, the loftyborder, here about 6500 feet high, of the elevated interiortable-land; in the Mont aux Sources at the head of THE DRAKEXBERG. 40, the Tugela, however (a point at the union of the bound-aries of Natal, Basuto Land, and the Orange State, whencethe impassable Maluti range extends south-eastward), itreaches up to 10,000 feet, and the Cathkin Peak, farther. WAGGON-llOAD OVER THE DRAKENBEIIG. south, rises over the sources of the Orange river to ameasured height of 10,357 feet. From the summit ofthe Drakenberg, Natal presents the appearance of a regu-lar series of terraces, but the Free State and the Transvaallie on a true plateau descending gently inland, and variedwith isolated peaks diminishing in number but assuming 406 COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL. more regular outlines as we advance into the table-lands of the Orange State and of the Transvaalfarther to the north are destitute of trees or bushes, andcovered only with grass, winch withers up in winter, whennothing is visible but brown and dreary wastes. North of the pass are to be seen some very curiouslyshaped peaks of the Drakenberg, southwards the giganticchain of the same heights, and in a few days the snow-clad \Yitteberg itself is reached. The road across thisrange is the first and easiest stage of our journey human abodes are often
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