10 INTRODUCTORY 



There is already regular communication from the 

 Zambezi, through our Protectorate of Nyasaland, 

 to Lake Nyasa, Tanganyika, North-East Rhodesia, 

 and the headwaters of the Congo ; and as those 

 remoter regions slowly awake to their responsi- 

 bilities towards the great scheme of the civilisation 

 of Africa, so must the countries lying along their 

 routes profit by the multitudinous benefits which 

 this civilisation brings in its train. 



Thus it will one day come to pass, I doubt not, 

 that the region of Zambezia — its marshes drained, 

 its river banks reclaimed and cultivated, its malaria 

 stamped out, and its administration based upon 

 modern and improved methods — will take its place 

 among the most valuable of African possessions. 

 This, however, is a result only to be achieved by 

 years of patient toil, by the expenditure of large 

 sums of money on ^riculture and experiments, 

 and last, but not least, by the sacrifice of European 

 lives. We have even now, as I look at it, done 

 little enough for those portions of the great African 

 continent over which our own flag flies to-day, and 

 every step on the road which leads to the point 

 we have reached is marked by the graves of those 

 who have fallen by the way ; but well have they 

 fallen, and all honour should they receive who, at 

 the cost even of life itself, have added their quota, 

 however small, to that great whole which we proudly 

 call the Empire. 



Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. 



