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minds. Mr. Rhodes formed a high opinion of 

 the farming capacity of a large district of high 

 veklt lying between this place and Umtala. No 

 physical difficulties of importance, he reported, 

 need obstruct the construction of a railway from 

 the coast to Manica, the ascent from the low to the 

 high land lieing gradual and easy. Sportsmen at 

 home may like to know that a prodigious quantity 

 of game, big and little, swarms on either side of 

 the Pungwe Eiver. Possibly after next June, 

 July, and August these buffalo, hippo, rhino, and 

 buck of every kind, now neither wild nor wary, 

 will have been frightened away into remote and 

 inaccessil^le swamps and thickets ; possil^ly before 

 another year is over the silence of the bush between 

 Manica and the coast will l)e disturbed 1)\' the 

 wliistle of the steam-engine, by the axe or the pick 

 of the navvy, rather than by the baying of the 

 hound or the crack of the hunter's rifle. 



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