Sugar making is also an industry of importance

The place has strategic advantages, which caused it to become a theater of military operations after the Spanish-American War. It was fully pacified in 1900, and made a military post by the United States authorities, Bulawayo, the principal town and chief commercial center of Mat abele land, in Southern Rhodesia, South Africa. to which point the railroad from Cape Town was completed in 1897, a total distance of 1,360 miles. The place has a population of 5,000; several hotels, good busine blocks and residences, and is rapidly growing in size and importance. Bulawayo a few years ago was the site of a native village of rude huts, in an inclosure of wattles, whose inhabitants were savages of the lowest type. _Bulbul, the Indian name of any bird belonging to a sub-family of thrushes.