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Moreover, from the eastern lower spurs of these 

 hills to the Mozambique Channel cannot be more 

 than fifty or sixty miles, so no great outlay of money 

 would be required to lay a tramway or railroad, 

 through the unhealthy region to the seaboard, 

 alike suitable for passenger or freight traffic; 

 further, I am informed that there are many places 

 alone this coast where excellent harbours could be 



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made, but I fear such would require more than a 

 modest outlay. Moreover, the surf, more familiarly 

 known by the designation of the " rollers," which 

 commit such havoc with shipping in the vicinity of 

 Algoa Bay, East London, and Durban, are almost 

 unknown here, and then only in a most mitigated 

 form. With the elements of such a population as 

 has made Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and 

 last, although not least, the United States what they 

 are, located in this hill country, which is in my belief 

 the eastern boundary of Mashoona Land, there 

 could be no limits placed upon their prospects of 

 wealth, and prosperity ; for independent of the ap- 

 parent richness of the soil, labour would be cheap, 

 and those you employed for that purpose would be 

 found an industrious, ingenious, and inoffensive 

 people ; further the valuable timber to be found on 

 the alluvial low grounds could not fail to be a great 

 source of revenue. The conclusion I come to in 

 reference to the population is formed from the con- 

 duct of the party of bearers that I now have in my 



