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tional values attaching^ to the effort, at the present juncture ot 

 world-poHtics and world-crisis. That the time is opportune for 

 such a study will be conceded by all, and so we shall proceed on 

 our way scrutinising our facts as we record them, and examining 

 each principle as it emers^es. One can only express the earnest 

 hope that the emphasis laid upon certain elements in the present 

 situation, a situation so little appreciated and understood even by 

 men experienced in native affairs, may have the serious considera- 

 tion at least of those in positions of authority in the administra- 

 tion of native. affairs, and not (like many a Presidential address 

 embodying^ the results of years of labour and the cream of a 

 man's thought and experience) be relegated to the printed page 

 in dust-covered binding. 



On the contrary, the selection of this particular subject for 

 the purposes of this address is designed as a stimulus to the exact 

 study of the remarkable transition so full of extraordinary interest 

 to the economist, the psychologist and others ; and if it gives 

 new direction to enquiry, or makes any contribution to a better 

 understanding of the black man's handicap in the race of life, 

 and the greater race of nations, and most of all if it imparts any 

 elements of experience and wisdom into the policies of native 

 administration now being formulated in the newly acquired areas 

 already mentioned, adding sympathy and understanding to a 

 system that in the past has been all too wooden, then its per- 

 manent value will be assured. 



4. TIic Field of Enquiry. 



In order, then, to have a definite basis for our enquiry, let us 

 select as our field of investigation the Transkeian Territories. In 

 this corner of South-Eastern Africa the author has been privileged 

 to study the situation for himself at first hand. Bounded by 

 the Great Kei River and the Colony proper on the west, Basuto- 

 land on the north, Natal and the Indian Ocean on the east and 

 south, the territories consist of four well-defined areas. The 

 Transkei pro])er consists of six districts extending east of the 

 Kei River along the coastal belt as far as the Umtata River. 

 Tembuland is composed of the six districts on the interior plateau 

 (broadly speaking) above the coast belt, which is so well-defined 

 a feature of the topography of South-Eastern Africa. Pondo- 

 knd, the third area, inclusive of St. Johns, consists of the 

 remote coastal districts, seven in number, which lie between the 

 Umtata and Imzimkulu Rivers- The fourth territory occupies 

 the remaining space, and at one time was so sparsely inhabited as 

 to be called Nomansland in all official documents. Since, how- 

 ever, it was annexed in 1879* it has come to be called East 

 Griqualand, and now supports a population of nearly 250,000 

 souls in eight magisterial districts. 



In the accompanying Table I a clear view is given of the 

 essential details concerning the Territory, in order that the whole 

 o^ the relevant facts may be before us. 



