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portions of the territory, that which from many 

 points of view has achieved a most striking success 

 is the Soci^t^ du Madal, of which his Highness the 

 Prince of Monaco is, I understand, an interested 

 supporter. 



This body holds under a Royal Decree the large 

 and important prazoes or districts of Madal, Tanga- 

 lane, Cheringone, and Mahindo, comprising an area 

 of some 700,000 acres, and possessing the striking 

 advantage of proximity to the important settlement 

 of Quelimane. Here again we have an association 

 labouring for agriculture, and one which has estab- 

 lished many model stations for the facilitation of 

 its numerous enterprises. Much attention and 

 considerable outlay have been devoted to the open- 

 ing up of roads, to the laying down of a small 

 Decauville railway which extends for some 15 

 kilometres, and to the developing of navigable 

 waterways for the appreciable object of the rapid 

 transport to the coast of their numerous products. 



They possess already, it is said, no less than 

 125,000 coconut palms, whilst their exports include 

 on an increasing scale large quantities of copra, 

 rice, bee's-wax, rubber, and native cereals. 



Great advantage has been derived from the 

 Soci^te du Madal's workshops, which comprise 

 saw-mUls, ironworks, brick and tile factories, and 

 boat-building yards, in which the untrained native 

 has, by intelligent supervision, been educated to a 

 point which now enables him to turn out most 

 superior work, thus rendering this active association 

 largely independent of expensive European labour, 

 and enabling it to almost bid defiance to all the 



