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bicycles. ‘These latter, which are rapidly multiplying, are a good index 
of prosperity, since their price is £5, and the possession of cycles gives 
special inducement to the people to keep the inter-village paths clear and 
encourages the habit of paying visits at a distance, the native’s chief 
recreation even when he had to walk. ‘This southern railway belt is, of 
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Fic. 1.—Cartogram of Northern Rhodesia to illustrate effects of 
External Influences. 
(1) Rhodesian circular house; (2) Rectangular house of Bantu or Swahili origin; 
(3) Rectangular house on European model; (4) Native iron industry 
reported as still in operation ; (5) Annual migration to European mines ; 
(6) to other European employment; (7) to market produce; (8) Surplus 
produce sold locally. 
course, the centre of European population, the effect of which is seen in 
the nature of money-earning employment. The poll tax of from 7s. 6d. 
to 12s. 6d., according to the region, is in Rhodesia the initial cause of 
the widespread annual migration of the younger men, but the desire 
for change and excitement and for luxuries increasingly influences it. 
Throughout most of the country natives have to travel far to earn money. 
But here in the south employment on farms, on the railway or in domestic 
service may be had at a distance usually much under one hundred miles. 
Moreover, surplus crops or stock may be sold for local use or for transport 
