Complex sentence: When Rhodes arrived Nata, he was briefly accommodated by the Surveyor-General of Natal, Dr. P. C. Sutherland, in Pietermaritzburg, Rhodes joined his brother Herbert on his cotton farm in the Umkomaas valley in Natal.
Split into simpler sentences: When Rhodes arrived in Natal, he was briefly accommodated by the Surveyor-General of Natal, Dr. P. C. Sutherland, in Pietermaritzburg. Rhodes then joined his brother, Herbert, on his cotton farm in the Umkomaas valley in Natal.