Kaucking' on the moonlit door: Ani his horse in the silence: champed Of the forest's ferry fo And a bied Mew up out "Above the Traveller's hea And he smote upon the door, again a plete ho, stood, perplexed and 'But only. host of phantom listeners "That dwelt in the tone house. then Stoo listening in the quet of the oe 'Torthut voice frum the world of Seood' thronging the faint. mo on the dark tal, riiat goes down to the empty all, Hearkening in-an ait sUiteed und shaken the lonely: Traveller's cal Anil he'fott in his hone thole ateange-
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the lean ai made te senor, Fell"eehoing. through the" shadowiness Though every Pak
ofthe Sill bode From the, one, man loft awake says thay "heard "Zoot "upon the ORB E8 aeond of iron, stone, shew the silence atrged. sott of Durban, recently celebrated its centenary, Tt was on June 26 and 27, 1824, that Lieutenant Farewell, 'R. N., and Messrs. Cane and Ogle reached Natal from. Capetown, und made their abode close to the site of the present Town Hall of Durban, Eleven years after the arrival of the first settlers, Capt. Allen Gardiner appeared on the scene. He had come out from Englund to the missionary work. amongst the Zulus; but, being refused permission to live in Zulu Tand, he decided to comply with the request of the setters at Port Natal, or the Bay of Natal, as it was then variously known, and to live there, choosing as his home the top of the ridge, overlooking the bay, at the unction of the present St, "Thomas and Ridge Roads. This he called' Berea, and the name has since been extended to the whole of the upper: residential portion of the town. In the same year, 1835, he called a meeting of the settlers, who then numbered no more than 30, at! which it was decided to lay out a township and to call it Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, the then Governor of the Cape. That was really the beginning of the present great city, Tt was not until 1854, however, that the municipality was formed.' At that time the: ratable value of the town was £4,487. It is now £17/409,698. The popula tion of the city is about 150,000.
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