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would, therefore, with deference, suggest that it 

 would be well for the Chartered Company to take 

 this suggestion into consideration, and to select 

 suitable village sites for the occupation of settlers, 

 allotting, of course, a fair amount of arable land 

 (Erven) to each homestead. Each such village 

 should possess a right of common of as large an 

 extent as possible or necessary, suitably provided 

 with the necessary waters, to which localities stock, 

 under the direction and control of the village 

 Council, should be allotted in suitable lots and 

 shifted fiom place to place as may be expedient. 

 This is, in fact, the native system, and as regards 

 success the main results are unquestionable, and 

 the Kaffirs have as a rule raised two beasts for 

 every one on detached private farms equal 

 numbers of breeding cattle being taken into con- 

 sideration, and in spite of the fact that the Kaffir 

 management of important details is very faulty. 



Indeed, some such scheme is worthy of being 

 seriously thought out and applied to further the 

 best interests of Rhodesia, if the country is to be 

 converted into a colony instead of being, as it now 

 is, a mere area for disreputable bogus speculations 

 and intrigue. 



