. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . nt—an event of past history. It is here that the Drakens-berg range, particularly that portion known as theMount aux Sources group, makes its challenge to alllovers of nature in her grandest and most sublime moods. Tourists and mountaineers canno longer be satisfied with repeated ascents of the well-trodden peaks of the Continent orCanada now that the beauties of the Drakensberg are making so emphatic a claim toattention. Here the geologist, the botanist, and the naturalist, can find in every directionopportunities for original rese
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . nt—an event of past history. It is here that the Drakens-berg range, particularly that portion known as theMount aux Sources group, makes its challenge to alllovers of nature in her grandest and most sublime moods. Tourists and mountaineers canno longer be satisfied with repeated ascents of the well-trodden peaks of the Continent orCanada now that the beauties of the Drakensberg are making so emphatic a claim toattention. Here the geologist, the botanist, and the naturalist, can find in every directionopportunities for original research work of the most valuable character; and the mountaineerand sportsman can revel in regions untrodden from the beginning of time. The health andpleasure seeker can hardly fail here to obtain new energy and new inspiration, while theartist may find in the Drakensberg a new world to conquer and make his own. The most important climatic consideration in judging of a health resort is its occasionally other factors demand attention. 321 322. IMPEND H L Map of Roads to the Drakensberg [he Purity of the Atmosph* i ra illenge it mal the imaginai ion md intel A Tri k i-k.)M Ladysmith to the Mont aux Souk- MODI OF I KA VI L. trek ways l>y ox v mule wagon, posl carl (where available) or ii party, with a corresponding particular obj i wagon with in gor, md .1 careful driver may be Found the most convenient and mosl con The ground may be covered a little quicker with mules, but both th< ind load woul e to considerably lighter than would be necessary with oxen. A compromise may. hov. be effected hy using the post cart over such parts of the journey whi his se is in operation, sending on in advance by ox-wagon or ox-cart personal luggage and caimpedimenta. But perhaps the easiest and safest way of travelling over the veldt inmountainous country, for those
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