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 accept concessions of land in the Transkei district, between the Kei and Kogha rivers. Recently, also, a European society has acquired one of the finest tracts in this region, the territory traversed by the lower St. John River (Um-Zimvubu), which is sooner or later destined to become the chief outlet for the inland districts

between the Cape and Natal. Since 1887 this territory is directly administered by the British authorities.

The future possession of the whole land is thus being gradually prepared by these little isolated settlements, But although the Kafirs are no longer the political masters of a region wrested by their forefathers from savage tribes who still used stone arms and implements, they nevertheless still constitute nearly