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" destroyed* 100,000 cattle," and in 1897 tlie rinderpest carried 

 oil nearly all their cattle, and yet these people have experienced 

 no outstanding change in their manner of life. rossil)l_\- there 

 may have resulted great and outstanding changes following the 

 rinderpest had not the war come upon the country, causing the 

 dislocation of everything requiring lahour, and while men's 

 minds were filled with other thoughts the opportunity passed. 

 That the results which followed upon these events were not com- 

 parable to those attendant u])on the Black Death might lead us 

 to expect a repetition in this case of negative results. 



The fact is that the Territories cannot be ([uite the same 

 after this widespread loss of cattle — that some advance has been 

 made h\ the very shock to the tribal system, and tribal tradition, 

 and tribal customs ; l:)Ut Ave need hardly look for immediate and 

 revolutionary change, .\lready the change is stealing over the 

 land quite rapidly enough in some wa}'s, and acceleration may 

 not be altogether an advantage. 



The Black Death ati'ected the people in their relation to land 

 ami wages. Not the cattle merely, but the population of the 

 countrx', was reduced by one-half, and more. And so it seems 

 to me that once again the natives will stand their losses bravely. 

 Thev were accustomed to lose their all in the days before the 

 Transkei was taken <n'er by the British Government; and the 

 stern discipline of those da\s has not been in vain. And 

 probably the revolution for which we look will come not as 

 the result of this, or that, great loss of cattle, but rather by 

 the economic pressure which will result with the i)assing of 

 communal tenure. It is well that that passing is being intro- 

 duced graduallv, for the revolution for which we look is alreadv 

 in process, and the day can hardly be far distant when we shall 

 see and feel the travail of those times. 



Potash from American Kelp. — F. K Cameron. 



in United States Commerce Report 143, referring to the avail- 

 able seaweed beds of the Pacific Coast and the annual kel|) 

 harvest, says that the amount of potassium chloride which it 

 is possible to produce is five times the total import of potash 

 salts from Germany, calculated as chloride. The cost of 

 handling, drying, grinding, storing and loading at San Diego 

 and neighbourhood will not far exceed one dollar per ton of 

 dried kelp. Cutting and collecting is estimated at i dollar 83 

 cents, and general expenses at one dollar, making a total of 3 

 dollars 83 cents. The manurial valtfe of the dried kelp is 

 calculated at 15 dollars 75 cents per ton, nine dollars of which 

 represents the va.lue of the potash. 



* Short papers by .Vndrcvv Smith, p. 35. 



