Products and Resources of Nyasaland 



it would be unwise for any to go out unless 

 employment has been assured to them beforehand 

 by some of the large trading companies or the 

 Government. Posts under Government are few, 

 and when vacancies occur they are quickly filled up 

 by men with special qualifications. 



Locomotion. 



Many officials have motor bicycles or ordinary 

 push bicycles, but there is a difficulty in getting 

 them repaired in the country. No mechanical 

 knowledge is to be obtained ; at least this was 

 the case in 1908. 



Rickshaws can be hired in Zomba and Blantyre ; 

 machillas are, however, universal all over the country. 

 Horses are the vara avis. There are two at Zomba, 

 privately owned, but they never leave the settlement 

 on account of ** fly." 



A good Government road runs through the 

 Protectorate, from Chiromo on the Shire to Karonga 

 at the north of Lake Nyasa, a distance of five 

 hundred miles. This thoroughfare has been of 

 immense service in bringing the more remote parts 

 of Nyasaland and their wilder inhabitants under 

 the control of the administration. There are 

 numerous "carrier roads," which are kept up by 

 the local chiefs ; these are only paths kept clear of 

 brushwood. 



The navigation of the upper Shire river became 

 impeded during the spring of 1908 by floating 

 masses of reeds and sudd; the Public Works and 



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