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ECONOMICS OF EAST COAST FEVER. 



Census. Estimated.* 



11. Tcmbuland : 191 1. ^9^4- 



EUiotdale 16,705 2,500 



St. Marks 42,089 3^'-37 



Engcobo 66.686 10,000 



Mqanduli 37'-i9 7,000 



Umtata 55,547 8,580 



Xalanga 20,932 18.000 



///. Hast Griqua'l<md : 



AJatatielc 70.252 33-045 



Mount Ayliff 24,181 7.200 



Mount Currie 36,980 — 



Mount Fletcher 43>i 77 52,000 



Mount r""rere 46,019 29,500 



Ounibu 38,739 30,000 



Tsolo 40,763 8,000 



Umzinll^^lln 45,246 ^-5oo 



IV. Poudoland : i 



Bizana 51-972 10,000 



Flagstaff 34-046 12,000 



Libode 36.281 7-500 



Lusiidsiki 51.850 20.000 



Ngqeleni 40.294 7,448 



Tabankulu 46.503 17,500 



V. St. John.'; t 8,645 1,400 



Totals 1,111,705 434,063 



II. SoMK I'xoNOMic Effects. 



I. Oti Wealth. — The Transkeian natives, as one might 

 expect, have few ideas on the subject of wealth. For them 

 the horizon is bounded by oxen, women, and Kafir beer, and 

 the chiefest of these is oxen ! While they are engaging in- 

 creasingly in agriculture, and with a surprising degree of accom- 

 plishment, nevertheless they are more truly a pastoral peo])le. 

 It is stiil true to say that the native delights in his lierds, and 

 watches eagerly for the increase. The aim and object in life 

 seems to be to accumulate cattle, rather than to accumulate 

 money in the form of gold and silver ; but in the ultimate 

 analysis we see that cattle, in the mind of tlie primitive native, 

 takes the place of the banks which we use. We lock our money 

 up in banks ; he locks his up in cattle. We look for interest ; 

 he looks for increase. 



Now. our system of banking is guarded most carefully by 

 Acts of Parliament, and in other ways, for it is realised how 

 profoundly the trade and commerce and welfare of a country 

 would be affected by the failure of one such institution — not 



' Annual Report, T T.G.C., 1914. 



