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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



The Principal Street in Bulawayo. 



The poetic side of his nature is shown in his choice of a final rest- 

 ing place. From a point twenty miles along the railway south of 

 Bulawayo a branch line runs towards the Matopo hills where he had a 

 large estate. A drive of eight miles from the hotel at the terminus 

 leads into wild scenery along gradually ascending valleys, past large 

 enclosures containing wild animals and through a park which is being 

 continually improved by the planting of trees and all kinds of flora. 

 On either side the road is flanked by hills which seem to have been built 

 up by Titans who piled up rocks and boulders in every conceivable 

 position, perching them on the tops and sides of smooth turtle-back 

 shaped rocks five hundred feet high, or dropping them on the plain and 

 covering them with bushes and trees. As the ' Eoof of the World ' is 

 approached, the carriages are left and a footpath ascends gradually over 

 smooth rock on to the flat top of one of the highest of the hills — the 

 ' World's View.' On this spot, enclosed by a circle of boulders some 

 fifteen or twenty feet high, is placed the grave dug out of solid rock 

 and covered by a plain slab bearing only the simple inscription, ' Here 

 lie the remains of Cecil Ehodes.' A not unpleasing contrast is af- 

 forded by an elaborate monument nearby erected to the memory of 

 Major Wilson and his comrades who fell at the Shangani Eiver on 

 December 4, 1894. 



This large estate was owned by Cecil Ehodes and was left by him 

 under the care of the trustees for the benefit of the public, full direc- 



