XXII 

 A 'BERG TROUT STREAM 



FROM the carnage window of the railway 

 train the traveller espies near Estcourt, in 

 Natal, a river gleaming white in the valley. 

 This is the Bushman's, which has its 

 source in the Drakensberg mountains, and speeds 

 onward through hilly country. Even when not 

 in flood its current is rapid. In flood-time it is 

 excessively busy. Slightly wider than the Umgeni, 

 it is not so broad as the Mooi ; but, proportion- 

 ately, it appears to hold more water than the 

 Mooi. To stock all the tempting and even ideal 

 haunts that the Bushman's offers them trout 

 would need to be legion. There is indeed room 

 for them there, and happily both Loch Levens and 

 brownies are doing their best to occupy it. The 

 trout are not so numerous as in the Mooi, but 

 for all that the Bushman's is a fine fishing river, 

 and the way in which the stock has progressed 

 there must be a source of gratification to the 

 Natal Government of the old days and to their 

 honorary " trout man," Mr. John Parker, of 

 Tetworth, who distributed the fry at Robinson's 

 drift, a score of miles from Estcourt, at about the 

 same time as the Mooi also received troutlets in 



