14 H. C. Schunke.—Notes on the Orography and [July 9, 
situated within the Transvaal Republic. Zeerust and Malmani in: 
the Marico district, the Rustenburg district north of Magalies- 
berg, Nylstroom, Pietersburg, Origstad, Lydenburg, and Barberton 
are all situated on the high plateau, yet the climate in neither 
of these parts can be called safe. What has been the history 
of Schoemansdal and Origstad in the past ? More than one-half of the 
inhabitants were suddenly carried off by fever. The experience of 
the past has shown that malaria may be carried from the Low Country 
over fifty to sixty milés of the Highland with deadly effect. Let us 
therefore not forget that the Highland in Matabeleland is scarcely 
fifty miles in width, and that even Mashonaland and Manica are but 
narrow, and that there is the additional drawback of a considerable: 
reduction in latitude to be taken into account. One conclusion, for the: 
present, must be that for colonisation in the true sense of the word the 
land in Mashonaland and Manica cannot be of great extent. There is no: 
disguising the fact that the country north of the Limpopo is more: 
adapted to the black man than to the European, and we may fitly ask 
ourselves to-day the question whether at some future time it may not be 
possible to remove some of the numerous tribes now occupying the /inest,. 
healthiest and most productive part of South Africa away to the vast, 
and to them inviting, area where Europeans cannot expect to become 
acclimatised. The traditions of our natives living in the coast 
country from Tongaland down to the Fish River show distinctly that 
they migrated not so many generations ago from the North. In fact 
it is believed that there was a southward movement two or three 
hundred years ago among all the tribes from the Great Lakes down to- 
the Cape. During the wars of the Zulus under Chaka a retrograde 
movement set in from Zululand, and parts of what is to-day the Free 
State, still at the same time large numbers of natives were pushed 
South-East into the Transkeian Territories. The Matabele moved 
northward from the Blood River in Natal and ultimately settled in 
their present country. The Makololo left their home in the 
Harrismith district fleeing from Chaka’s warriors, and moved north- 
ward until they reached the swamps of the Zambesi and Chobe, 
travelling more than a thousand miles from their original home ; and 
other natives moved northward about the same time, who are now 
settled over the Limpopo in the Gaza country under Gungunhana. 
All these natives had no difficulty in becoming acclimatised, for it was. 
but few generations back since their forefathers came from those 
unhealthy parts. The most remarkable instance of this facility of 
