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product turns out ii pftviiiff proposition, consider 

 ably over a million hectares of land can bo put 

 under rubber. 



An elevation will bo reached eventually beyond 

 which rubber will probably not pay to grow, when 

 it will give way to maize, cotton, tobacco, and 

 tropical and sub-tropical products that prefer a 

 less fonin^' climato than that near the coast. 

 Some of the country would probably prove con- 

 genial for ostrich-farming, but cattle-rearing will 

 depend in some measure upon the extent to which 

 tsetse is found to exist. The Bettlcment of these 

 highlands awaits the opening up of roads and the 

 bettering of the means of transport. 



I have not visited the Nyassa Company's terri- 

 tor}', but 1 fool sure that the western portion from 

 the Uiver Lugenda to Lake Nyassa, the basin of 

 the tributaries of the Hovuma, and comprising the 

 northern part of the arch of which the rivers 

 of Quelimane form the southern, must be good 

 country. 



The Uivcr Zambezi is pre-eminently associated 

 with the sugar-planting industr}' of the Province, 

 and it goes almost without saying that under 

 favourable conditions the industry on that river 

 and the Chire would be capable of immense 

 expansion. At the same time it would be quite 

 a mistake to suppose that the land along its banks 



