20 MOZAMBIQUE 



Cape. It is, however, to a certain extent inde- 

 pendent of Europe, as it possesses in the Union 

 a miniature Europe as a near neighbour. This 

 is bound in the future to have a marked effect 

 both with small capitalists who look for quick 

 returns, and with large capitalists who, in 

 ever-increasing numbers, cater for the great 

 mining capital and other industrial centres of 

 the Union. Any advance in progress on the 

 part of Ehodesia and Nyasaland must also be 

 shared to some extent by the Province, which 

 connects them with the coast, their natural outlet. 

 On the other side of the channel stretches the 

 great island continent of Madagascar, bound in 

 time to render up its riches, when it will provide 

 Mozambique with still another market to exploit. 



The agricultural resources are as yet little 

 known, though it will be easily understood that 

 a country stretching through sixteen degrees of 

 latitude, abounding in well-watered alluvial plains, 

 and enjoying both a tropical and a sub-tropical 

 climate, must have great and varied capabilities. 



Portuguese East Africa is known officially as the 

 Province of Mozambique, and is governed by three 

 separate administrations, two of them being com- 

 pany administrations, independent of the Governor- 

 General. The northern portion, between the 

 Kivers Eovuma, on the German East Africa 



