The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

Damaraland480 Ari'KNDIX.RAILWAYS.Total mileage of Govcmineut lines (188G), 1,599 miles.„ „ private lines (lS8(i), 176 niilen.Capital expended on railways to 1887, £14, IM, 0(10.Averajro cost per iiiile, £8,837.Gross receipts (188G), £1,019,000 ; expenses, £647,000.Passengers caiTied (1886), 2,238,000 ; goods, 313,000 ton;i.POSTAL AXD TELEGRAPH SERVICES.Post offices (1886), 714; revenue, £126,000'; expenditure, £183,000.Letters carried (1886), 6,630,000; newspapers, iScc, 3, 15.', 000.Telegraph offices (1886), 217 ; lines, 4,330 miles.Messages despatched (1886), 770,500.Revenue (1886), £48,500 ; expenditure, £50,000.CHIEF TKIBAL GROUPS IN CAPE COLONY AND NEIGHBOURINGDISTRICTS.Sax, ok Bdsiuien, north-western districts, left bank of the Orange, and in the Kalahari Desert.Khoi-Khoin, or Hottentots, chiefly iu western parts of Cape Colony, Great and Little Namaqualand,and Griqualand West.MAIN BRANCHES OF THE HOTTENTOT RACE.H.^u-Damop, if, "True Damas," or Hau-Khoin, i.e., "True Hottentots," called also HillDamaras and Ova-Zorotu ; coast range east of the Herero (" Cattle Damara ") territory.Great NAjTAmjAS. Geikow, or "Red Men," Oerlam, hilly districts south-ea,st of Walvisch Bay,Topnaar, Walvisch Bay territory.LiiTLE Namaquas. North-western districts of Cape Colony.KoRANAS, properly Koeaqia, Middle and Upper Orange, Vaal and Modder rivers.Geiqtia, so called " Bastaards," half-caste Hottentots and Dutch, chiefly in Griqualand West.GoNAQUA, or " Border Men," towards east frontier of Cape Colony ; nearly extinct.GRKWALAND WEST.jVrea, 18,000 square miles :population (estimated), 60,000.ELECTORAL AND ADMINISTRATITE DmSIONS.1. Kimberley ; 2. Barkly West; 3. Herbert; 4. Upper H-ay, or Griqua Town. Chief towns:Kimberley (population about 20,000), Beaconsfield, Griqua Town.THE GRIQUALAND DIAMOND FIELDS.Mines- . Extent. Depth. Diamoutls extracted,IS70-1SS7.Kimberley 30 acres 450 feet £21,000,000De Beers* 15 „ 540 ,, £10,000,000Bultfontein 28 „ 320 ,, £6,000,000DuToit'sP.an .... 31 ., 310 ., £6,200,000Total yield of the dry diggmgs (1.S70 — 1887), £50,000,000. Miners (1883) : 1,578 whites, 11,180blacks and coloured.BECHUAXALAND.Total area of protectorate, 190 to 200,000 square miles. Population, 475,000 to 500,000.Area of part annexed, 162,000 square mdes. Population (1886), 48,000.Chief town and centre of administration, Mafeking.Estimated revenue (1885), £20,000 ; expenditure (m.ide" up by grant from Imperial funds), £120,00(1.• Destroyed by Qve, July, 1S6S.