XIX 
NATAL’S EARLY TROUT 
ODEST but thorough, describes the 
\ /| attention paid by the authorities in 
Natal, in the early days, to trout 
acclimatization. Compared with the 
work done in the Cape Colony, the preliminary 
attempts in Natal were on a small scale. As 
I have before said, to Mr. J. C. Parker more 
than to any other is due the progress made there. 
In the Cape Colony, as it then was (now it is a 
Province), there were at least two hatcheries, one 
at Pirie Bush, near Kingwilliamstown, and the 
other at Jonker’s Hoek, Stellenbosch, near Cape- 
town; at both of which institutions, Mr. 
Chaplin, a professional pisciculturist, has done 
devoted efficient work. Numerous indeed have 
been the official supplies of ova from Jonker’s 
Hoek to other parts of South Africa, 
So much enjoyment has been received by 
wielders of the fly-rod in Natal that a retrospect 
can fittingly be made here. Many men on leaving 
the homeland for Natal, have had hopes of finding 
trout-fishing there. Of these hopeful wanderers 
I myself was one. Our wishes in respect of 
