CHAPTER X 



EXISTING SETTLERS 



It would appear from recent reports from the 

 British Viee-Consul* at Chinde, that the chief 

 articles of export from Zambezia, neglecting sugar, 

 of which some account was given in a preceding 

 chapter, are, in order of importance, Ground-nuts, 

 Bees-wax, Rubber, Ivory, and various kinds of 

 beans ; and as it is evident that they must be collected 

 and sent down by somebody, we will now devote 

 a little space to describing the actual position of 

 the settler, and give some description of his 

 circumstances and environment. 



We have already seen, in the chapter dealing 

 with the Prazoes, that a certain number of 

 Europeans and others exist in those large areas ; 

 but as they have been already more or less referred 

 to, we will deal first of all with the British Indian 

 merchant, incorrectly known to Europeans as the 

 " Banyan," and to the natives as the " Mony^." 

 There can be little doubt that this type of Indian 

 is singularly well equipped for the native trade, 

 practically the whole of which has for a long time 



* Mr. Stanley Hewitt-Fletcher, who is also Agent for the Nyasaland 

 Protectorate^ and has passed many years in these parts of Africa. 



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