298 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



In none of these eight articles are there sufficient 

 data on which one can report with certainty. 

 Erythroxylon Coca, yielding the valuable drug 

 Cocaine, and the Papaw, which also yields a 

 valuable medicine, certainly grow in this zone as 

 well as they could possibly grow anywhere. 



There is an enormous demand to be expected 

 for indiarubber, and in moist, humid, and foresfc- 

 clad valleys experiments on the rubber vine 

 (La?idolphia spp.) should be tried ; no one has, so 

 far as I know, attempted the regular planting of 

 Landolphias. It should not be difficult, as the 

 bush should not be cleared except of undergrowth 

 and other creepers. 



The native population consists of many different 

 races, which are of slightly varying characteristics, 

 though not very different in disposition. 



This country is one of a very few places where 

 Europeans of a good stamp (not the coast variety) 

 have been able to deal with natives who were not 

 previously corrupted by generations of slavery and 

 Mohammedan domination. 



The results are wonderful. Thus when, say 

 600 loads have to be forwarded from Karongas on 

 Nyassa to Kituta, the men flock into Karonga from 

 the neighbourhood, and their names are written 

 down ; each receives a yard of cloth for posho 

 (food), shoulders his load, and starts under charge 

 of a native headman. When he arrives at 

 Fife, which is half-way, he receives his six yards 



