BRITISH ASSOCIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA 7 



accompanying map will show. The Union-Castle line steamers 

 Kildonan Castle and Durham Castle, leaving Southampton on July 22, 

 arid the Saxon, leaving on July 29, carried the members over the 6,800 

 miles which separate that port from Cape Town. From there the 

 party traveled by sea or rail to Durban and thence by rail to Johannes- 

 burg, making stops at Pietermaritzburg, Colenso and Ladysmith. The 

 scientific meetings were divided between Cape Town and Johannesburg, 

 and four or five clays were accordingly spent in each of those towns. 

 After a short visit to Pretoria, the regular program involved a long 

 journey of 1.374 miles to Bulawayo via de Aar Junction, the only 

 possible all-rail route; on the way, stops of a clay or two were made 



General View of the Victoria Falls from a Point near the West End. 



at Bloemfontein and Kimberley. From Bulawayo five special trains 

 conveyed the oversea party, with the addition of many others living 

 in South Africa, to the Victoria Falls, where a couple of days were 

 spent. On the return to Bulawayo about half the party proceeded 

 direct to Cape Town, whence the regular steamers carried them by the 

 west-coast route to England. The remainder went by rail through 

 Salisbury and Umtali to Beira, where the Durham Castle awaited them 

 for the east coast route. On the return journey, Mozambique, Mombasa 

 and Cairo were visited; the presence of plague at Zanzibar and Niarobi 

 upset the arrangements for seeing those two places, but the unexpected 

 block in the Suez Canal enabled the party to spend much more time 

 in Egypt than had been expected. Several members whose duties 



