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their own export ; and secondary, which will bring in some return while the 

 others are beinfj developed, but are mainly useful for local consumption to save 

 import of European stores, &c. 



Primary products are — (1) minerals, in which we have good grounds to believe 

 that the country is very rich. This is the desideratum. 



2. Ivory, which is, however, a decreasing product. The elephant is being 

 rapidly exterminated. Plea for its preservation and domestication. Desideratum is 

 a means of transport ; possibilitj' of taming the zebra or breeding zebra mules. 



3. Coffee indigenous and already widely cultivated at Blantyre. 



4. Tea, cloves, chiuchona-bark, rubber, indigenous drugs. 



Secondary products can at first be exported in the emptj^ returning steamers, 

 but are mainly useful for local use. 



1. Misanguti tree furnishes oil, and dye, and timber, and from it can be made 

 candles, soap, and oilcake for cattle. 



2. Hides, which should be roughly prepared on the spot for exportation. 

 (Materials for this rough process are available on the spot). 



3. Oil seeds of various kinds. 



Other cultivable products are wheat, linseed, flax, indigo, cotton and opium ; 

 the latter and sugar have already succeeded. 



4. Fibres of plantain, tree-bark, and hemp. 



5. Drugs, such as strophantlos, and others yet unknown. 



6. Valuable plants, orchids, herbs, ferns, &c. 



7. Timber, indigenous as ebony, and imported. Plea for importation of Indian 

 useful trees, and arguments for supposing they would do well. 



Nyassaland as a field for immigration : 



a. For Europeans. — The high lands have proved healthy, but a means of rapid 

 transit through the deadly coast area is a necessity. 



j8. For Indians. — Even the coast area has already been peopled with them. 



1. They must be of a sturdy fighting class who can protect themselves. 



2. They would supply the wants, and form the recruiting basis for a nucleus of 

 a fighting force. 



3. Above all they would introduce the Indian methods of agriculture, and so 

 aid in the development of the African tribes. 



The scheme appears feasible, and we have reason to think would be accepted 

 by the Punjab races. 



Nyassaland has gi-eat claims to be opened up by the British, and the time has 

 now come for our Government to decide whether they will accept the position or 

 leave it. 



8. On tlie Zambezi Delta. By B. Daniel J. Kankin. 



The author gave a general description of the Zambezi Delta from the conflux 

 of the Shirtj River to the sea. He spoke of the condition of the people ; indicated 

 the routes used by trade from the interior to the sea, showing how the primitive 

 and inefficient means of communication have tended against the development of 

 trade. He then referred specially to the Inhamissengo, or Slongoni outlet, and 

 the Chind6 river — its character and suitability for traffic. He spoke of the physical 

 characteristics of the Chind^ mouth ; the advantages of using this as the trade 

 outlet, both from a political and commercial point of view, showing how, by using 

 this new outlet for trade, a commercial enterprise formed on the lines of the Niger 

 or Imperial East Africa Company would have every prospect of .success. 



SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 



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