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BULAWAYO , the See also:capital of Matabeleland, the western See also:province of See also:southern See also:Rhodesia, See also:South See also:Africa. See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also: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 See also:Cairo connexion, runs north-See also:west from Bulawayo, See also:crossing the Zambezi just below the See also:Victoria Falls. In the centre of the town is a large See also:market square to which roads See also:lead in See also:regular lines north, south, east and
west. Those going east and west are called avenues and are numbered, those See also:running north and south are called streets and are named. Through the centre of Market Square runs See also:Rhodes See also:Street. There are many handsome public and private buildings. In front of the stock See also:exchange is a See also:monument in memory of the 257 settlers killed in the See also: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. The railway station and See also:water and electric 'See also:supply See also:works are in the south-west See also:quarter. An See also:avenue 13o ft. broad and nearly 12 m. See also:long, planted throughout its length with trees, leads from the town to See also:Government See also:House, which is built on the site of Lobengula's royal See also:kraal. The See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree under which that chieftain sat when giving See also:judgment has been preserved. A number of See also: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 " See also: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 See also: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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