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The hole, satanical enough in all conscience, apart from its once diabolical association—black, narrow, deep, perfectly smooth, with an opening at each end admitting the terrific rise and fall of the boiling sea. Into this the wretched culprits were dropped and left to a helpless and inhuman battering to death by the incessant rush and recoil of the maddened waters—a more ghastly mode of execution impossible to conceive.
MARBURG must not be forgotten. It is a small Norwegian farming settlement three miles away, and affords an interesting excursion.
Shepstone, the most English-like of Natal's resorts, and situated in an atmosphere particularly bracing, and most delightfully equable, has fascinations for one and all, whether health-seeker, pleasure-seeker, artist, scientist, sportsman, business man, planter or farmer, and its prosperity should be writ large before many years.
Special mention should be made that Port Shepstone possesses a good public library, cricket, rowing, and tennis clubs, rifle association, and churches of various religious orders.
Umzimkulu River, Port Shepstone
ALFRED COUNTY RAILWAY
The Alfred County Narrow Gauge (2 ft.) Railway continues along the coast from Port Shepstone station for four miles, and then strikes directly inland to Murchison Flats, passing through Marburg Settlement Lands for five miles from the coast, then through Native Location for about six miles, the remainder of the line through farm lands. The length of the line is about twenty-five miles from Port Shepstone to the terminus at Murchison. The country rises