BRITISH ASSOCIATION IX SOUTH AFRICA 



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VI. 



The route chosen for the journey to Mafeking by road lay through 

 ISO miles of some of the most fertile districts of the Transvaal and 

 included nights spent at the small towns of Rustenburg, Zeerust and 

 Ottoshoop. Two stage coaches, each capahle of carrying eighteen 

 passengers with baggage, and a large ambulance wagon were provided 

 for the accommodation of the party which, with guides and leaders, 

 numbered thirty. These coaches have of course been gradually sup- 

 planted by railroads where there was sufficient traffic to justify a regu- 

 lar service, but they are still in use in Rhodesia. As the illustration 



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An Irrigation Dam and Trench on Mr. Ginsberg's Farm. (Photo lent bv 



Mr C. G. Danviu.) 



shows, they are of the Concord type and indeed those which actually 

 conveyed us were built in the United States. Six pairs of mules were 

 harnessed to each coach. We were accompanied throughout by Messrs. 

 H. H. Hewson, W. D. Sievwright and G. W. Herdman of Pretoria, and 

 it was mainly owing to their care and thoughtfulness for our welfare 

 that no serious mishap occurred during the six days' trek. The magis- 

 trate of each urban district through which we passed also joined the 

 party, while it traveled through his territory, and much was learnt of 

 the land and its people from these gentlemen and from residents whom 

 we met along the route from time to time. The limits set to this 

 article forbid more than a brief account of the general impressions 

 gained. It must suffice to mention that the first night we camped 



