In
the mines operated by the De Beers Company alone, more than eleven
thousand African natives are employed below and above ground, coming
from the Transvaal, Ba-sutoland, and Bechuanaland, from districts far
north of the Limpopo and the Zambesi, and from the Cape Colony on the
east and the south to meet the swarms flocking from Delagoa Bay and
countries along the coast of the Indian Ocean, while a few cross the
continent from Damaraland and Namaqualand, and the coast washed by the
Atlantic. The larger number are roughly classed as Basutos, Shanganes,
M'umbanes, and Zulus, but there are many Batlapins from Bechuanaland,
Amafengu,
