Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-03-14
SUCH is SOUTH AFRICA
Vivid Picture in Miniature of the Lever
Tart of the Dark Constituent.

Tart of tho Dark Constituent.
You land In South Africa at the foo
Of a noounAin $500 feet high The.
call it Table Mouata. n, and ,u4e vel "
mist that. excepting on very clear days
overhangs il. South Africans are
pleased to term the -Tab!ecloth." Pie
sentang front Of solid rock, 1,0oO re
In height, perpendicular as a wall. and
for half mile On top evel, this noun
tain Offers the best natural sign board
On earth. Time and again have Bril-
Ssh firms attempted with fabulous sums
to secure L for Advertising pur poses,
but. az yet, there has beeA no such
denacement
Table Mountain marks the I'D end
OF the Dark Continent Below it mes
ties tie city of Cape Town, a beautiful
bay stretching out in the foreground.
On the west the mountain breaks on
abruptly. and the railroad skirts about
II to the fnteaor. On the east 1t slopes
OH into a billy picturesque forma,hn
known as the Lions BACK" and then
gradually rises into the Draken burg
Mountains This is toe only great
mountain range south OF the Zambesa
and by noting its il caliCn one may un-
derstand IN a trice just what South
Africa Is gecgrap5ic ally. Stsau'ng
along the east coas- from Cape Colony
noTthward. you have the Drahens5urg
In view nearly all the way to Beira a
distance of 1900 miles. In Cape Col
ony and Natal the mountains in many
places dip the waters edge and Wit. n
neld glass one may see on their craes
ano peaks emoke curling up from The
native villages. In Portuguese terri
tory the mountains recede slightly
from the coast. and at Delagoa Bay
there is an intervening stretch Of low
iano twenty miles wide. At Beira this
has increased TO sixty miles. 4: tie
C~m6es1 the Drahensbu:s encs.
To get ITO the n e. Tor of Souta
Africa from shy CT the t1ve east coast
landing places-Port Elizabeth, East
London, DGrban, Delagoa Bl, AM:
be1ra-one 1nrst cross Il shor. eAttnt
OF iow land and then asceoi e.eac
mountains. Having arrived there. the
traveller Is conscious Of little or 10
descent, Ave sixths OF the whole inte~.
lor being vast plateau that EXTENDS
10 one lam best OH the norm, the 4
anflc Ocean on the west, and var es
n altitude from 5000 to 5000 fee;
Above tho sea.
A fringe OF trop!ca country, Were
bloom the magnolia and the rose.
where flourish the orange, pineapple,
emon, guavo, grape banana, the cot |
on and the tea plant: long stretch |
u mountains running parallel VITA |
he Indian Ocean, the ntgl peaks y: !
WHICH are capped with snow, and in |
whose valleys wave tracks OF wheat
nd corn. vast prairie, dotted here
nd there with patches q scrub wood
and mission stations, and immense
arms with millions OF sheep and cat
lie grazing thereon; a few thousand
amlets scattered like GASES over a
reat landscape. made black by thu
atfve All. cans who live in tnatched
uts, and wear but o breech clout: q
Oxen large towns where Is heard tho
lang OF the American trolley car and
~ chatter OF che police patrol. and
bout which men cluster 80 fies gather
a jar of sweets; the remnants Of q
nee mighty zool & cal g 'en. includ-
g many lie pards be- utifu! and 1.-the,
aboons, antel Pc. iackals and c-Ccu-
les, a less number CT hippopotami
I'D few nerds of buffalo, elephants
li graffes: some iron ore, soma coal,
'me copoer. and a little si,er: forty
Hes of 6osl aA1 100 scres Il d:a-
onds. That h@ South AZ ca.-Ains-
e's Magazine