Geography of South and East Africa, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Geography of South and East Africa, Vol. 2 South africa, taking the Zambesi River as its northern boundary, contains at the present time five British colonies, two of which, viz. The Cape Colony and Natal, are self governing colonies, While the other three, Basutoland, the Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony, are Crown colonies, though of course the former differs entirely from the latter two in Character. It also contains the Bechuana land Protectorate, which stretches north to the British South Africa Company's territory and the Zambesi. In addition to this area there is the territory of the Royal British South Africa Company, now known as Southern Rhodesia, con sisting of Mashonaland and Matabeleland 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.