Buluwayo.

Buluwayo, the capital of Matabeleland, situated about 120 miles north of Tati, stands upon a ridge on the northern bank of the Bulu-wayo river, in a commanding position, overlooking the entire surrounding country. The enclosure of the British South Africa Company is distant about three-quarters of a mile from the Royal kraal. We find a few European residents at Buluwayo residing in huts surrounded by fences of the thorny mimosa bush. The Company's house used to be greatly frequented by the Matabele—queens, princes, and princesses, the regent, the rain and dance doctors, ladies young and old, elderly indunas and the young soldiers—all anxious for some gift from the white men.

Buluwayo ("The one that is slain," or "The place of killing") is merely a collection of kraals. In the centre is the King's waggon; round it his wives' circular huts, built of sun-dried bricks and roofed with reeds. Inside the kraal is a smaller division called the "buck-kraal," into which his flocks of goat and sheep page 61 were driven at night, during the day being sacred to his Majesty and the scene of his incantations. Round the central group of huts is an open space about four hundred yards wide, outside which are the quarters of the warriors—about four thousand in number—and their families. The stockade, several miles in length, encloses all.