18 MOZAMBIQUE 



Congo and Zambezi basins, is drained into the 

 Province. Six rivers, including the Incomati, 

 rising in the heart of the Transvaal, converge 

 upon Delagoa Bay, and between Lourenzo 

 Marques and the Zambezi there are the basins 

 of the Limpopo and Sabi and innumerable 

 smaller streams emptying themselves into the 

 Mozambique channel. The Zambezi, herself the 

 Queen of East Africa rivers, after traversing 

 the Province for between 500 and 600 miles, 

 forces its way to the coast through a maze of 

 estuaries, forming one huge delta 100 miles wide. 

 Northward, though there is no river of the size of 

 the Limpopo, the multiplication of streams, large 

 and small, continues to the boundary. 



The rivers are not torrential, rushing along deep 

 defiles, but flow lazily through valleys which they 

 themselves have built up with the rich alluvial 

 deposits borne upon their waters. The land thus 

 made is easily irrigated, and this is one reason 

 why capitalists are now being attracted to the 

 country. They are realizing the great facilities 

 for irrigation which it possesses, irrigation being 

 often the determining factor, in these times of 

 competition and intensive cultivation, of successful 

 management. 



The great obstacle to rapid progress in young 

 countries is often the difficulty of communication 



