MOZAMBIQUE 



CH.VPTER I 



SOME NATURAL ADVANTAGES IN WHICH THE 

 PROVINCE EXCELS 



Politics loom so large in the South African sky 

 that the value of Portuguese East Africa has 

 come to be identified with the value of Delagoa 

 Bay as a port for Johannesburg, hut whatever 

 store may be set upon the privilege of being able 

 to play the part of a Tilbury to the Transvaal, 

 merely to fetch and carry for other people, how- 

 ever efficiently, is a poor ideal for any country. 

 Mozambique is destined for greater things than 

 to be one of the doorways of South Africa. 



A glance at the map for the first essential 

 condition of successful agriculture — namely, water 

 — reveals the wonderful system of rivers with 

 which Portuguese East Africa is endowed. The 

 whole of the great plateau of Central and South 

 Africa, east of the divide which separates the 



