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still untouched in South Central Africa. No 

 hostile feelings can ever again arise, I should 

 conceive, from questions of the sufficiency of 

 land. Of this there is much more than enough 

 for both white and black, and assuredly the tribes 

 of Zambezia as a whole, to say nothing of the 

 Barud and adjoining areas, are not sufficiently 

 numerous to experience either inconvenience or 

 resentment from the all too gradually flowing tide 

 of European immigration which is so sluggishly 

 rolling through this little-known portion of the 

 country. What is really required, both in our 

 own colonies and in the sphere of which I am 

 treating, is ability to organise a coherent system 

 capable of retaining the native in the country and 

 at the same time of increasing his usefulness as an 

 essential agent of our civilisation. 



APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI 



The following is a convenient digest of the Mining Regu- 

 lations in force in the Region of the Barue : 



Area of Claims. — (1) For precious stones, a square of 10 

 metres each side. (2) For precious metals, a square of 100 

 metres per side. (3) For dredging, a rectangle of a maximum 

 area of 2,500 hectares, no side to exceed 5,000 metres. (4) 

 For all other mineral deposits, a rectangle not exceeding 100 

 hectares. 



Cost of an ordinary mining licence is 5,000 reis (£1), and 

 for a special mining licence 50,000 reis (ifi'lO). 



With an ordinary licence the prospector can peg (a) 

 precious stones, 10 claims ; (b) precious metals, 10 claims ; 

 (c) any other class of mineral, 1 claim. 



With a special hcence, however, of the claims («) and (6) 

 500 may be pegged, 1 di-edging claim, and (or) 5 claims of 

 any other class of mineral. 



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