374 THROUGH ANGOLA 



concession to the north of the central railway 

 has been granted to an American company, and 

 from the energy and apparent optimism of her 

 very alert oil engineers, it is possible that America 

 has found yet another good investment. 



She is losing no time in exploiting Angola, and 

 American companies have secured vast concessions 

 covering possibly one-third of the area of the 

 colony. 



In the south of Angola an English company 

 has obtained an oil concession, and is very opti- 

 mistic of its possibilities. 



In regard to colonization, Angola is better 

 suited to Portuguese and Italian settlers of small 

 holdings than to the British, for the country has 

 already a considerable Portuguese colony, some 

 20,000 people, and an Englishman would find 

 social life and the Portuguese language obstacles 

 to his progress and comfort. It is to the settler 

 with means and the investor that this country 

 should appeal, for the land and climate are good, 

 and values, owing to the low rate of exchange, very 

 favourable to the Englishman. Signor Norton de 

 Mattos, Portugal's High Commissioner for Angola, 

 is one of the greatest of her colonial admini- 

 strators, and if one man can make a difference to 

 a colony, Norton de Mattos will achieve it. He 

 is also a friend of Great Britain and the British. 



One of the assets of Angola is its big game. It 

 is difficult to make the Portuguese realize how 

 much game preservation has helped the British 

 colonies economically by attracting to them those 

 who, coming to shoot big game in the first instance, 



