. Our holiday in Africa . rfulgame districts, and will take the outgoing shipments fromthat section. That country is reported to be fertile and willno doubt soon be settled by Europeans, as it lies high, andshould be healthy. Wankie is a coal mining station, about eighty miles southof Victoria Falls. It is the only coal mine now being workedin Rhodesia. The quality is semi-anthracite and makes goodsteam coal and is used for all the railways in this part ofRhodesia. The vein runs from five to twenty-nine feet inthickness and where the coal is so scarce as it is in Rhodesiathis mine is worth mor
. Our holiday in Africa . rfulgame districts, and will take the outgoing shipments fromthat section. That country is reported to be fertile and willno doubt soon be settled by Europeans, as it lies high, andshould be healthy. Wankie is a coal mining station, about eighty miles southof Victoria Falls. It is the only coal mine now being workedin Rhodesia. The quality is semi-anthracite and makes goodsteam coal and is used for all the railways in this part ofRhodesia. The vein runs from five to twenty-nine feet inthickness and where the coal is so scarce as it is in Rhodesiathis mine is worth more than some gold mines. This little coalmining town has some two thousand population, nearly allnative negroes, and is the only town on this line of railway be-tween Victoria Falls and Bulawayo, a distance of two hundredand ninety miles. This will serve to illustrate how few whitepopulation there is now in Northwestern Rhodesia. The popu-lation is about seven hundred and fifty whites and the black 93 OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA. BULAVVAYO population is estimated at about three hundred and fifty thou-sand. These blacks do but little farming, raising only smallpatches of Mealies for their own use, and have a few cattle,the water is very scarce for live stock. BULAWAYO After the dusty, disagreeable traveling on the railwayfibout one thousand miles, it was a great comfort to get thegood accommodations provided by the Grand Hotel. Wenoticed with surprise that the table waiters were wearingshoes. This is the first time that we have seen shoes wornby servants in hotels since coming to Africa. Undoubtedly itis one of the indications that we are approaching the morecivilized portions of this great continent. This is a bright,young city with six thousand population, good hotels, electriclight, public library, Y. M. C. A. association, hospitals and ex-cellent church l)uil(lings. It has a first-class public school sys-tem and a daily newspaper. The Tndaba Tree, under whichjudgment was dispensed
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