sh order in the newest parts of its territory. But in the long
run, and especially when the regions north of the Zambesi begin to be
practically occupied, Bulawayo, standing in a corner of the country,
will have to yield to the more imperial site of Fort Salisbury. The
district which lies round the latter town is better watered than western
Matabililand, and the soil richer both for pasture and for tillage. The
rainfall for the year ending April, 1890, reached fifty-three inches,
and the average is about forty.

Fort Salisbury is three years older than Bulawayo, and therefore much
more advanced. It has even several churches. There is a colony of East
Indians, who grow vegetables and get very high prices for them; and a
considerable trade is done in supplying the needs of the mining
districts to the north and west. Many gold-reefs lie out in those
directions, and great hopes are entertained of their future, though at
the time of my visit people were much busier in floating new companies
to develop the mines than in taking steps for their actual development.
Some very pretty country residences, in the style of Indian bungalows,
have been built on the skirts of the wood a mile or two from the town;
and street-lamps now light people to their homes along paths where four
years ago lions were still encountered. The last lion recoiling in
dismay from the first street lamp would be a good subject for a picture
to illustrate the progress of Mashonaland.

[Footnote 46: A singular story was told me regarding the death of Lo
Bengula's sister. She had enjoyed great influence with him, but when he
took to wife the two daughters of Gungunhana, the great chief (of Zulu
stock) who lived to the eastward beyond the Sabi River, she resented so
bitterly the precedence accorded to them as to give the king constant
annoyance. At last, after several warnings, he told her that if she
persisted in making herself disagreeable he would have her put to death.
Having consulted the prophet of the Matoppo Hills, who told her she
would be killed, she cheerfully accepted this way out of the difficulty,
and was accordingly sent away and strangled.]

[Footnote 47: The original inhabitants of the country, belonging to the
tribes which we, following the Portuguese, call Makalanga or Makalaka,
are called by the Matabili (themselves Zulus) Masweni. The name Maholi,
often also applied to them, is said to mean "outsiders," _i.e._,
non-Zulus. Though many had b