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Title: The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ingram, J. Forsyth (Joseph Forsyth), b. 1858
Subjects: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) — Guidebooks
Publisher: London : Printed by J. Causton and sons
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s of the mines, liescattered about. Sundays River is next sighted. Herethe train pauses for a few minutes to replenish the watersupply. El.-indsLaagte.205J milesfromDurban.Alt. 3,613 ft. 243 NNessels Nek, 23o§ miles from Durban. Alt. 3,770 ft. Extensive balla.st quarrie.s occur in the vicinity, and sidingshave been constructed for the convenience of trucks. Wessels Nek is an important station in the coal trade.Several mines of repute occur in the vicinity, and a consider-able amount of developing work has been done on them, butthey are so similar to coal mines in other lands that adetailed description would be of only slight interest. Beyond this point the line approaches a range of loftyhills on the right, while on the left a broad bush-studdedvalley opens out. It was in this vicinity that some landslipsoccurred a few years ago. By careful engineering the tendencyto slip, caused by the formation of the country, has now beenentirely overcome. On a summers day, the dull, gold-coloured

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Identifier: colonyofnataloff00ingr
Title: The colony of Natal; an official illustrated handbook and railway guide
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ingram, J. Forsyth (Joseph Forsyth), b. 1858
Subjects: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) — Guidebooks
Publisher: London : Printed by J. Causton and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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was in full retreat, and the Boers in pursuing it became,unfortunately, separated. The gallant story of how Pieter Uys 22tS

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was wounded, and how his son died in endeavouring to savehim, forms inspiriting reading. Those who followed Potgieterin the chase were afterwards forced to retire, and the com-mander succeeded with difficulty in fighting its way back tothe main camp. In the month of August, 1838, King Dingaan madeanother determined attack on the emigrants laager nearEstcourt. Anticipating an easy victory, the savages rushedon in high hope, but were beaten off with terrific loss. Oldresidents who remember these wars can describe the scenesof carnage with gruesome realism. After much skirmishing, the Boers, now led by AndriesPretorius and Carl Landman, completely overwhelmed Dingaan,who, on Sunday, i6th December, 1838, attacked them at theirlaager on the Blood River, which was so named because itswaters literally ran red with the blood of 400 warriors whowere shot on its banks. On that day 3,000 Zulus perished,and until the present time, the i6th December—the anniversaryof the battle—is kept religio

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