A Thousand Miles in a Machilia 



India. Goods are now also being imported from 

 Germany. 



Exports. The principal exports are cotton, 

 tobacco, ivory, hippo teeth, rubber, oil seeds, bees- 

 wax, strophanthus drug, chillies, ground-nuts, rice, 

 fibre, tea, cattle, etc, 



Transit. The trade in Nyasaland is much 

 handicapped by distance ; and from there being no 

 direct line of rail to the coast, all merchandise has 

 to be conveyed down the Zambesi to Chinde, and 

 that only at certain times of the year. 



The Germans are building a line called " Central 

 East African Railway," through their territory from 

 Dar-e-salaam, which has a beautiful natural harbour 

 to Tabora. The Cape to Cairo Railway will 

 eventually cross this point, which the Germans 

 hope to reach in 1914. So far the construction has 

 been carried five hundred and twenty kilometres 

 inland. Whether this line will be continued from 

 Tabora to Udjidji on Lake Tanganyika has not yet 

 been decided by the Reichstag. It will therefore 

 be some years before extensions can be carried on 

 to Lake Nyasa ; but when this is accomplished, 

 which is only a matter of time, it will be a great 

 outlet for the trade of Nyasaland, for steamers will 

 be able to deposit goods at railhead. There are at 

 present seven steamers on the Lake. 



A time will no doubt also come when a railway 

 will be built from Beira to the Zambesi, and this 

 could be continued on the east side of the river to 

 Port Herald. Beira has a good natural harbour, 

 while the coast at Chinde is at all times difficult 



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