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AT the meeting of the Geographical Society on Monday, Sir Bartle Frere read what may best be described as a suggestive paper on Temperate South Africa as a route to the Central Equatorial Region. After defining the temperate region as the vast tract of country extending to Cape Frio on the Atlantic coast and to the mouth of the River Tugela on the opposite side of the continent, and giving a brief account of its geography, &c., Sir Bartle addressed himself Chiefly to the task of pointing out how it could be made available as a base of operations in exploring the country north of the Zambesi, and suggesting agencies which might be turned to account for the extension of geographical knowledge. These agencies are the traders and hunters, who have a wide acquaintance with many regions otherwise unknown, and missionaries of various denominations. The latter have no less than eighty-four fixed stations beyond the colonial boundaries, manned by 812 Europeans, many of whom are highly-cultivated and intelligent men, and have great opportunities for acquiring geographical information. Sir Bartle Frere also hoped that the Council of the Society might see their way to urging the Government to undertake a proper survey of the coast-line, as well as of the interior of the five colonies.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 23, 87 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/023087a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/023087a0