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BULAWAYO , the capital of Matabeleland, the western province ofSee also: southern Rhodesia, See also: South See also: Africa
.
See also: White population (1904) 3840
.
It occupies a central position on the tableland between the
See also: Limpopo and See also: Zambezi See also: rivers, is 4469 ft. above the See also: sea and 1362 M. See also: north-See also: east of Cape See also: Town by See also: rail
.
See also: Beira, the nearest See also: port, is 398 M. east in a See also: direct See also: line, but distant 675 M. by railway
.
Another railway, See also: part of the Cape to Cairo connexion, runs north-west from Bulawayo, See also: crossing the Zambezi just below the See also: Victoria Falls
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In the centre of the town is a large market square to which roads See also: lead in See also: regular lines north, south, east and
west
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Those going east and west are called avenues and are numbered, those See also: running north and south are called streets and are named
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Through the centre of Market Square runs Rhodes Street
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There are many handsome public and private buildings
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In front of the stock See also: exchange is a monument in memory of the 257 settlers killed in the Matabele See also: rebellion of 1896, and at the junction of two of the See also: principal streets is a See also: colossal See also: bronze statue of See also: Cecil Rhodes
.
East of the town is a large See also: park and botanical gardens, beyond which is a residential suburb
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The railway station and See also: water and electric 'supply See also: works are in the south-west quarter
.
An avenue 13o ft. broad and nearly 12 m. long, planted throughout its length with trees, leads from the town toSee also: Government See also: House, which is built on the site of Lobengula's royal See also: kraal
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The See also: tree under which that chieftain sat when giving See also: judgment has been preserved
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A number of gold reefs intersect the surrounding See also: district and in some of the reefs gold is See also: mined
.
South-south-east of the town are the Matoppo Hills
.
In a See also: grave in one of these hills, 33 M. from Bulawayo, Rhodes is buried
.
The " Place of Slaughter," as the Zulu word Bulawayo is interpreted, was founded about 1838 by Lobengula's See also: father, Mosilikatze, some distance south of the See also: present town, and continued to be the royal residence till its occupation by the See also: British South Africa See also: Company's forces in See also: November 1893, when a new town was founded
.
Four years later the railway connectfngit with Cape Town was completed (see RHODESIA)
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