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who wishes to see Portugal hold all the colonies 

 bequeathed her by the gallantry of her earlier 

 discoverers ; but methods must be changed. 

 Foreign capital and trade should be encouraged, 

 for in the increased wealth and prosperity which 

 they would bring to the colony, Portugal would 

 gain far more than any small temporary advantage 

 that protective colonial legislation might appear 

 to bestow. Angola should be dealt with on great 

 and statesman-like lines, for she is a great colony. 



There is probably no other single colony in 

 Africa that has so much land colonizable by 

 Europeans and suitable for the extensive cultiva- 

 tion of cereals, which all grow well in the Angolan 

 highlands, and maize especially so. In the lower 

 plateaux and coast land, cotton, sugar-cane, and 

 rice can flourish, while coffee, oil palms, and pine- 

 apples grow wild and in profusion in the north. 



There is no African colony with a better 

 access for these products to the markets of Europe, 

 or better harbours to sail her ships from. In few 

 colonies runs a railway with greater potentialities 

 than that from Benguella to Katanga (which I 

 have called for convenience in this book the 

 Central Angolan Line), for Katanga is one of the 

 richest mine lands in the world, a country of 

 immense reefs of copper, zinc, gold, coal, and 

 iron. 



To the north of Angola there are also the great 

 diamond fields of the Kasai, worked by Belgians 

 and Americans, and the resources of these mines 

 are reputed fabulous in their richness. By the 

 coast is oil, I believe in good quantity. A vast 



