South Africa : Volume 1 (Travel Classics): v. 1 - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

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9780862993191: South Africa : Volume 1 (Travel Classics): v. 1

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ISBN 10: 0862993199 ISBN 13: 9780862993191

Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1987

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1879. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. CONDITION OF THE COLONY. NO. I. I Reached Durban, the only seaport in the Colony of Natal, about the end of August,--that is, at the beginning of spring in that part of the world. I was taken over the bar on entering the harbour very graciously in the mail tug which as a rule passengers are not allowed to enter, and was safely landed at the quay about two miles from the town. I mention my safety as a peculiar incident because the bar at Durban has a very bad character. South African harbours are not good and among those which are bad Durban is one of the worst. They are crossed by shifting bars of sand which prevent the entrance of vessels. A vast sum of money has been spent at Durban in making a breakwater, all of which has,--so say the people of Durban and Maritzburg,--been thrown away. Now Sir John Coode has been out to visit the bar, and all the Colony was waiting for his report when I was there. Very much depends on it. Up in the very interior of Africa, in the Orange Free State and at the Diamond Fields it is constantly asserted that goods can only be had through the Cape Colony because of the bar across the mouth of the river at Durban;--and in the Transvaal the bar ia given as one of the chief reasons for making a railway NATAL RAILWAYS. 131 down to Delagoa Bay instead of connecting the now two British Colonies together. There is a railway from the port to the town, but its hours of running did not exactly suit the mails, to which I was permitted to attach myself. This railway is the beginning of a system which will soon be extended to Pieter Maritzburg, the capital, which is already opened some few miles northward into the sugar district, and which is being made along the coast through the sugar growing country of Victoria to its chief town, Verulum. There is ex...

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Anthony Trollope was a Victorian-era English author best known for his satirical novel The Way We Live Now, a criticism of the greed and immorality he witnessed living in London. Trollope was employed as a postal surveyor in Ireland when he began to take up writing as a serious pursuit, publishing four novels on Irish subjects during his years there. In 1851 Trollope was travelling the English countryside for work when was inspired with the plot for The Warden, the first of six novels in what would become his famous The Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Trollope eventually settled in London and over the next thirty years published a prodigious body of work, including Barsetshire novels such as Barchester Towers and Doctor Thorne, as well as numerous other novels and short stories. Trollope died in London 1882 at the age of 67.

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