HAMILTON SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION 27 



Through South Africa to Victoria Falls. 



Illustrated Lecture before Hamilton Scientific Association, 

 December 20th, ia06. 



BY PROF. A. P. COI,EMAN, M.A. 



lyADIES AND GENTI^EMEN : 



The summer before last I had occasion to visit South 

 Africa. A number of scientific men from all over the world, 

 very few indeed from Canada, I think only about two, in- 

 cluding Professor McCallum of Toronto, were invited to join 

 the British party in their excursion into South Africa. It is 

 the longest expedition they have ever undertaken. 



South Africa is not so very easily reached from Canada, 

 in fact the shortest way is first to go to England, that is what 

 we did. From England you can take steamers from South- 

 ampton, you can take steamers of different lines on the way 

 and to Cape Town finally. 



I have a set of lantern slides which presently will be in 

 trim. I have quite a large number and shall make my talk 

 on them. The map that is thrown on the board explains it- 

 self, and I suppose I need hardly say that these black lines 

 that cross are indications of the direction in which we 

 travelled. This is a little wrong here, because some of us 



went by the route marked instead of by the other ; 



first to England, and then over the very long stretch of open 

 sea, 6000 miles to Cape Town. Our excursion was completed 

 by taking ship on the other side of South Africa and going 

 up the coast to the Red Sea, and then through to the route 



and back. It is worth while perhaps to get a little 



idea of the geography of South Africa itself. Here is Cape 

 Town, right on this peninsular strip. Then we go towards 

 Johannesburg. Johannesburg is the biggest city in South 

 Africa. We took connection to Portuguese East Africa. In 



