IOO THE TRADITION OF RATOLO. 



and made them prisoners. The cannibals now sent two girls 

 with many valuable beads to ask for peace. Kabu told them: 

 Yes, on the condition that they were to cease eating men. This 

 was the end of the cannibalism. 



Marangang ruled them all until Sekwati came back from 

 Zoutpansberg. There he had been growing rich, powerful, and 

 renowned. His son, Sekukuni, then a baby, was with him there. 



Transvaal Grass for Paper-making. — Experi- 

 ments conducted at the Imperial Institute with a species of 

 Aristidia from the Transvaal have shown it to be inferior to 

 Esparto grass as a paper-making material, yielding, as it does, 

 less pulp, and being of shorter fibre. On this account paper 

 made from it was brittle, lacking in flexibility, and generally of 

 poor quality. It was suggested that the grass might be con- 

 verted into pulp for locall use, but for this technical trials on a 

 manufacturing scale were needed. 



ANTARCTIC NAMES. — In the Bulletin of the American 

 Geographical Society (vol. 44, No. 8), E. S. Balch remarks on 

 the fact that Antarctic explorers, when giving names to their 

 new discoveries, have been apt to bestow on the latter the. names 

 of leading political personages, each of his own nation, instead 

 of. as one would have thought, turning to their principal 

 geographers and scientists. The writer commends the idea of 

 remedying the over-indulgence in royal names by shortening such 

 names as King Edward VII Land and Kaiser Wilhelm Land 

 into Edward Land and Wilhelm Land. For the great area of 

 land discovered by Amundsen he presses the suggestion pre- 

 viously made by him, that it should *be known as Amundsen 

 Land, and for the South Polar ice-cap he is content with the 

 name Haakon Plateau for the time being, but continues in hope 

 that geographers will ultimately decide that Amundsen Plateau 

 will be an improvement. For the coast of South Victoria Land, 

 which was sighted by Lieutenant Pennell in the Terra Nova, the 

 writer of the article puts forward the name Penmell Land : this 

 is coupled with the suggestion that the coast discovered by 

 Shackelton, to the west of Cape North, be called Shackelton 

 Land. Ross Island, he thinks, ought to be re-named, and so 

 Hooker Island is recommended. The name King Edward VII 

 Plateau, given by Shackelton to the ice-cap south of Victoria 

 Land, should be restricted to that portion of the cap which is 

 situated between Victoria Land and Haakon Plateau. It might 

 well be shortened into Edward Plateau, or, preferably, altered 

 into Shackelton Plateau. The plateau as a whole, it is con- 

 sidered by the writer, needs no special name, as it will inevit- 

 ably be spoken of as the Great Ice Cap of Antarctica. 



