Excerpt from Southern Africa: The Land and Its Peoples

It is to be hoped that this brief study of the geography of Southern Africa will be of value to candidates for the Matriculation and Senior Certificate Examinations and to first year University students, as well as to the general reader. The work was first begun by Mr. H. R. Storey, B.A., F.R.G.S. It is greatly to be regretted that on appointment to an inspectorship in the Eastern Province Mr. Storey was obliged to relinquish his share in the writing of the hook.

The first sections of the book are of interest to students of historical geography and geology, and are not necessarily to be read as an introduction. In particular, the chapter on Structure and Relief should be read before the section dealing with Geology.

The book contains numerous photographs, but only a limited number of maps and diagrams. The sketch-maps commonly found in text-books are an inadequate substitute for the accurate maps to be found in the Atlas. Moreover, such maps are surely of greater value if they are the work oft he student.

Statistics of production represent normal conditions rat her than the abnormal conditions that have prevailed during the recent depression. Population statistics, however, are based on the most recent census.

The authors wish to make various grateful acknowledgments: to Town Clerks all over the Union, who supplied much valuable detail relating to particular districts, to C. S. Groves. Esq., of the Michaelis School of Fine Art. who drew man of the maps and diagrams, to Professor Adamson, of the University of Cape Town, Dr. A. W. Rogers, Dr. A. L. du Toit, Captain Sneyd, Mr. O. J. S. Satchell, and to A. M. Duggan-Cronin, Esq., who supplied cither photographs or much valuable information: and to C. V. Hougaard, Esq., and A. van R. van Oudtshoorn, Esq., for several delightful photographic studies.

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