South and East Africa . bounded bythe rivers Chobe and Zambesi. On the east, between theZambesi and the Limpopo, it is conterminous with the Portu-guese possessions in East Africa; and, when the Limpopo isreached, it is bounded on the south and east by the SouthAfrican The total area between these limits is estimated to be over 400,000 square miles. Of this total, some 220,000 squaremiles are comprised in the western section, the country ofthe Bechuanas, while the remainder, amounting to 192,000square miles, represents the north-eastern portion of the terri-tory, the plateau of
South and East Africa . bounded bythe rivers Chobe and Zambesi. On the east, between theZambesi and the Limpopo, it is conterminous with the Portu-guese possessions in East Africa; and, when the Limpopo isreached, it is bounded on the south and east by the SouthAfrican The total area between these limits is estimated to be over 400,000 square miles. Of this total, some 220,000 squaremiles are comprised in the western section, the country ofthe Bechuanas, while the remainder, amounting to 192,000square miles, represents the north-eastern portion of the terri-tory, the plateau of Matabeleland and Mashonaland, the areaof Matabeleland being estimated at 78,000 square miles,and that of Mashonaland at 114,000. Matabeleland andMashonaland form two out of the three provinces intowhich the British South Africa Company have divided theirterritories, the third being Northern Zambesia, and the threetogether being given by the Company the common name ofRhodesia. The whole of Matabeleland and Mashonaland is. THE BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE. 71 administered by the Company, subject to the terms of their Sect. I. CH. V. charter, to Orders in Council, and to such conditions as have ^\ recently been laid down by the Imperial Government. The northernmost town of the Cape Colony is IMafeking T/ie Bech-on the Molopo River, about seventeen miles south of the pygfec-border. A straight line drawn due north from Mafeking will through the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi. IMafekingis very little to the north of 26° south latitude, and theVictoria Falls are just north of 18°. The Falls thereforeare about 550 miles due north of Mafeking. The straightline drawn as suggested will run through territory ownedor claimed by Bechuana tribes, but far the greater partof the area in question is desert land, and the Bechuanakraals or towns are to be found mainly on its eastern side,towards the frontier of the South African Republic. Taking the clans from south to north; the Baralon
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