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Title: Geography of South and East Africa; being part 2 of vol. 4 of A historical geography of the British colonies, rev. to 1903, and with chapters on the Transvaal and Orange River Colony added
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir, 1853-1931
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Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the lowlands of northern Zululand, not rising above 300 feet, sandy and swampy, thickly wooded in the interior, but badly watered and very unhealthy. In the wet season, from October or November to May or June, it is a fever-stricken land, to be shunned by Europeans. Less warlike than the Zulus and not of such fine physique, the Amatonga or Maputas, as they are also called, are more intelligent and more industrious, skillful with their hands, cultivating the ground to a much larger extent than the Zulus, and also going forth to work in Natal, the gold-fields, or at Delagoa Bay. Mealies or maize, millet, and ground-nuts are the chief articles of food, and palmwine is extracted from the trunks of the wild palms. Cattle thrive in the land but not horses, and wild game of various kinds was, till recent times, to be found in the jungle. The trade of the country has been hitherto principally with Delagoa Bay. Tongaland is now administered as part of the district of Ingwavuma in the Province of Zululand.
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Darbishire & Stanford L*^ Oxford. CHAPTER IV THE TRANSVAAL The Transvaal is bounded on the north by Southern Rhodesia, on the west by the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Cape Colony, on the south by the Orange River Colony and Natal, and on the east by Portuguese East Africa and Swaziland. Its area is about 111,000 square miles, or rather less than that of the United Kingdom. Stretching from about 22° to 30° south latitude, the Transvaal penetrates at its extreme north into the torrid zone, and would, in the ordinary course of things, be a sub-tropical country. In fact, however, its high level above the sea causes its temperature to be lower than it would otherwise be. The climate is what is termed continental, being subject to greater extremes of temperature than are found in regions exposed to marine influences. The climatic conditions are explainedby the physical characteristics. On the east there is a steep mountain chain, which intercepts the warm rain-bearing trade winds which come fro

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