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Pietermaritzburg Panorama

其他書名	A Survey of One Hundred Years of an African City
出版	Shuter and Shooter, 1938
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=V6QwAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This book is a survey of life in the capital of a South African Colony - a panorama of Pietermaritzburg manners and fashions, beginning with the Voortrekkers who founded the City in the midst of a wilderness created by the Zulu king, Chaka, and continuing through Victorian times to the present day. It is the story of one hundred years, for in 1938, Pietermaritzburg celebrates its Centenary. At the dawn of history, Natal was thinly occupied by men of the Bushman type. Archaeological discoveries suggest a pre-Bushman past. It is known that there were human precursors of the folk who have left their rock paintings in the uplands of Natal. But the stone age of the so-called Boskop man belongs to a period which is remote and obscure. When written records first supply information concerning the past of Natal, the Bushmen were themselves giving place to more powerful intruders from the north. These were the Bantu, who had begun to penetrate the coastlands south of Delagoa Bay in the last years of the sixteenth century.