South Africa -- History; South African War, 1899-1902 -- Causes
"Viljoen's," or N'Duko Hill; thence to a point north-east of Derby
House, known as Magwazidili's Beacon; thence to the Igaba, a small knoll
on the Ungwempisi River, also called "Joubert's Beacon," and known to
the natives as "Piet's Beacon" (Bea. IX.); thence to the highest point
of the N'Dhlovudwalili or Houtbosch, a hill on the northern bank of the
Umqwempisi River (Bea. VIII.); thence to a beacon on the only
flat-topped rock, about 10 feet high and about 30 yards in circumference
at its base, situated on the south side of the Lamsamane range of hills,
and overlooking the valley of the great Usuto River, this rock being 45
yards north of the road from Camden and Lake Banagher to the forests on
the Usuto River (sometimes called Sandhlanas Beacon) (Bea. VII.); thence
to the Gulungwana or Ibubulundi, four smooth bare hills, the highest in
that neighbourhood, situated to the south of the Umtuli River (Bea.
VI.); thence to a flat-topped rock, 8 feet high, on the crest of the
Busuku, a low rocky range south-west of the Impulazi River (Bea. V.);
thence to a low bare hill on the north-east of and overlooking the
Impulazi River, to the south of it being a tributary of the Impulazi,
with a considerable waterfall, and the road from the river passing 200
yards to the north-west of the beacon (Bea. IV.); thence to the highest
point of the Mapumula range, the watershed of the Little Usuto River on
the north, and the Umpulazi River on the south, the hill, the top of
which is a bare rock, falling abruptly towards the Little Usuto (Bea.
III.); thence to the western point of a double-pointed rocky hill,
precipitous on all sides, called Makwana, its top being a bare rock
(Bea. II.); thence to the top of a rugged hill of considerable height
falling abruptly to the Komati River, this hill being the northern
extremity of the Isilotwani range, and separated from the highest peak
of the range Inkomokazi (a sharp cone) by a deep neck (Bea. I.). (On a
ridge in the straight line between Beacons I. and II. is an intermediate
beacon). From Beacon I. the boundary runs to a hill across the Komati
River, and thence along the crest of the range of hills known as the
Makongwa, which runs north-east and south-west, to Kamhlubano Peak;
thence in a straight line to Mananga, a point in the Libombo Range, and
thence to the nearest point in the Portuguese frontier on the Libombo
Range; thence along the summits of the Libombo Range to the middle of
the poort where the Komati River passes through it, called the lowest
Komati Poort; thence in a north by easterly direction to Pokioens Kop,
situated on the north side of the Olifant's River, where it passes
through the ridges; thence about north north-west to the nearest point
of Serra di Chicundo; and thence to the junction of the Pafori River
with the Limpopo or Crocodile River; thence up the course of the Limpopo
River to the point where the Marique River falls into it. Thence up the
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