Effects of Storms on certain Forests, Cape Province. 753 



all these trees have since died from the damage they sustained, and 

 in working them up it is being found that water oozes out whilst 

 the logs are being sawn, that the timber is streaked with black, and 

 that it gives out an olfensive odour like that of stagnant water. Chips 

 of yellowwood showing these characteristics were submitted to the 

 Plant Pathologist for examination, and he reports that " the dis- 

 coloration in the wood is due to moisture at the roots. It is similar 

 to the trouble in oaks known as ' wet-foot,' due to the same cause. 

 Tliere is no fungus present — the walls of the cells are simply impreg- 

 nated with some resinous substance." 



About one hundred trees of different species (Yellowwood — 

 Pndocarpvs sp., Stinkwood — Ocotea bullafa, Assegai — Curtisia 

 farjliica, Lemon — Xymalos monospora, Chestnut — Cnlodenclron 



Showing track of the storms on the flats below the forests. 



capense, and Pear — Ajwdtjtcs di iiiidlata), hov/ever, were swept out 

 of the forests and deposited on the flats below, a distance, in some 

 instances, of from 3 to 4 miles. The majority of these trees were 

 not very much damaged, although several were over 100 inches in 

 girth and over 30 feet in length. They have all since been converted 

 into timber by local sawyers. 



Owing to the large amount of soil washed into the TTmtata Eiver 

 thousands of eels were carried down with the current in a choked 

 condition, and it was an interesting and unique sight to see them 

 J3eing hauled out from the banks in buckets, by rakes, and even by 

 hand. 



The small colony of woodcutters living below the forests in 

 question and close to a small stream from Ihe Ceka Forest, at which 



