6l4 SOME PLACE-NAMES OF TSOLO. 



the Fingoes were moved down from the Alaclear District after 

 the Pondomisi War, the missionary was invited to follow the 

 people to their new location, and since the Residency (see Tsolo) 

 had been removed, the site was given to the Mission, and was the 

 scene of the devoted labours of the Rev. D. L. Erskine for 27 

 years. 



{b) This same rebellion was responsible for the policy of 

 introducing a zone of white farmers along the foot of the Drakens- 

 berg Mountains. Accordingly at this time a large strip of country 

 was surveyed oft' into stiitable farm allotments, and these were 

 carefully named, but never allocated. After a long time some 

 natives were settled there, and now the whole of the farms in 

 that part of the district have reverted to location. The. names, 

 however, have some interest as marking the episode, and the 

 policy now abandoned. 



The following are the names of farms on Maclear Border in 



Tsolo District : — - 



Glen Melville. Lohengrin. 



Kilmainham. Freshfield. 



Fairfield. Ben Strachan. 



Middlemarch. Glen Grey. 



Carlyle. llawarden. 



Edendale. Stanford's Grove. 



Inxu Gorge. Lothair. 



Oberon. Rlunderstone. 

 Silver Stream. 



Between Xokonxa and Umtata the road passes {i.e., the 

 old road) through a beautiful gorge into a beautiful valley, and 

 on to a splendid grassland plateau. This aj)})roach to Tsolo was 

 for reasons of protection very necessary in those days, also sur- 

 veyed oft". One was given to a loyal policeman of the Nxasana 

 tribe, and the farm took his name, Kilili. Another loyal police- 

 man of the Nahlambe tribe was rewarded with the farm 

 Hlangena, also named after him. One other name, Uniti, was 

 evidently given because that farm was distinguished by the 

 presence of (mirabile dictu!) a tree. 



The following are the names of the (iO(|wana farms, and 

 from the names we glean some idea of the character of the 

 district :— 



(Grasslands. Waterfall. 



Fairvicvv. Kilili. 



lii.glicliff. Mlangeni, 



Ferndale. I'^mti. 

 Middleton. 



(c) The trading stations do not show very much originality 

 in their naming, and I give only those which have European 

 names : — 



Silverdale. Tsitsa Bridge. 



Junction Ferry. In.xu Drift. 



It will thus be seen that only four, and strictly speaking only 

 two, stations dei)art from the native name of the locality, for 

 obvious reasons. 



