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Cape Town by the Saxon on August 18, calling at Port Elizabeth and 

 New London, or by the Durham Castle, leaving the following evening 

 and going direct to Durban. The times were so arranged that every 

 one arrived there on the morning of Tuesday, August 22. There is 

 practically only one good natural harbor for ships of large tonnage on 

 the east coast of South Africa — that of Delagoa Bay, in Portuguese 

 territory. Much money has therefore been spent in improving the 

 harbor at Durban by building a long mole and by dredging the shallow 

 channel which leads into a large protected lagoon. It is now possible 

 for the mail boats to go inside and tie up alongside of the quays. One 



The Chief Princess of the Tribe which greeted the Party at Mount Edgecombe. 



was struck immediately on landing by the mixture of the east and the 

 west. Jinrickshas drawn by Zulu boys with their picturesque head- 

 dresses, ordinary two-horse carriages, and electric cars on the trolley 

 system carried the passengers along well-made roads bordered by trees, 

 to private houses and hotels, where they were waited on by Indian 

 servants. Shops of all kinds, a big department store, English churches 

 and chapels, a synagogue, a mosque, three-storied residences, bunga- 

 lows — all these made it difficult for us to realize that we were in a 

 town which has been British territory since its foundation in 1823. 

 As at Cape Town, there were receptions, lectures and excursions to the 

 more interesting works of nature and man. There were only two days 

 allotted to Durban and the majority of the party spent the greater part 

 of one of them at Mount Edgecombe, some fourteen miles away, where 

 the factory of the Natal Sugar Estates is situated. The company had 



