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capitalists of moderate views seeking where the 

 climate is good, living cheap, and native labour, 

 especially of the domestic kind, plentiful. It is, 

 however, a colony wholly unsuitable to the 

 dumping-down of the ordinary emigrant de- 

 pendent on wages, as on the coast coolies from 

 India abound, and do all the heavy labour at a 

 cheap rate, and the large Zulu population 

 abundantly supplies other departments of the 

 labour market. Clerks and shopmen are not in 

 demand, and must not try their luck in Natal, as 

 the ranks are full. 



Sport in Natal is not very good as a rule, but 

 in some parts heavy bags of francolin may be 

 made with the help of a good pointer. Bushbucks 

 are to be found in most of the rocky ravines, and 

 leopards are not extinct in the same localities, but 

 are difficult to get at unless beaters are employed. 

 A few bustards, both large and small, are to be 

 had here and there, as are also duiker and stein- 

 bucks, and now and again a reitbuck. Wildfowl 

 are found wherever suitable pools exist, but such 

 places are not numerous. A good stout 1 2 smooth- 

 bore C.F. gun, which will shoot ball well with one 

 of the barrels, is all that is required in Natal, as 



