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pointed hotels, the botanical gardens, the 

 driveways and parks, with their semi- 

 tropical trees and plants, the cricket 

 field, the polo grounds, the many types 

 of architectural beauty exemplified in the 

 public buildings, and the back beach, 

 with its unexcelled bathing facilities, are 

 at all times most agreeable. Although 

 it is occasionally quite hot during the 

 summer months, Durban affords an ex- 

 cellent resort in the winter season, from 

 May to August, when the days are dry, 

 cool, and unclouded. 



A visit to the Indian quarter, with its 

 Mohammedan mosque, coolie markets, 

 and numberless Hindoo shops, will be 

 well worth while. The Arab children, 

 studying the Koran aloud in the class- 

 room at the mosque, present a most pa- 

 thetic side to the recent Indian invasion 

 of South Africa which is now attracting 

 such worldwide attention. Throughout 

 the entire colony the Indian will be found 

 in all the walks of commercial and pro- 

 fessional life, from the ordinary laborer 

 coaling ships to the thoroughly educated 

 and trained barrister at law, fighting for 

 the rights of his countrymen. The Afri- 

 kander objects, but the Indian insists 



Photos by Russell Hastings Millward 

 MOHAMMEDAN HIGH PRIEST IN DURBAN 

 SHOEING A MUIvE AT GREYTOWN, NATAL 



