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RHODESIA OE TO-DAY
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GRAZING AND AGRICULTURE
The traveller wlio lias reached Matabeleland by way of the dreary Bechuanaland plains can readily understand how it is that Lobengula’s father and his people, when driven from Marico, trekked 500 miles to the northward before they settled again—there is no such good land between. The extraordinary richness of the soil in both Matabeleland and Mashonaland is at once revealed by the luxuriance of the vegetation. The first glimpse of Matabeleland, as one emerges from the pass beyond Mangwe, on the northern road, is particularly pleasing, and gives one a fair idea of the general character of the High Yeldt. As I saw it in early morning, it was as delicious a scene as could well be imagined. Prom the ridge on which I stood I could see far over the country; isolated granite