A BRIGHT FUTURE 399 



Quelimane and the British frontier of Nyasaland, 

 at some point which would enable it to join the 

 recently completed Blantyre and Port Herald 

 section, would do more to foster the prosperity of 

 Zambezia than any other scheme which could be 

 devised for its advancement. This assured, I can 

 see in the not remote future the city of Quelimane 

 rivalling in importance the largest and busiest 

 centres in the whole of East Africa. 



No absolute prodigies of organisation are necessary 

 to make this a producing region of the first im- 

 portance. It possesses many climates, several soils, 

 an infinity of marketable indigenous growths, and 

 valuable minerals. Added to all these, the un- 

 healthiness of its worst months is, as I have stated, 

 no worse than would be found in Nyasaland or 

 Rhodesia, whilst the necessaries of life are plentiful 

 and inexpensive. 



With an interest, therefore, which one naturally 

 feels for a part of the world whereof one has so 

 many pleasant recollections, I look to the next 

 few years to bring to Zambezia that prosperity 

 which 1 have every confidence her natural re- 

 sources wiU enable her to sustain and increase. In 

 a continent possessing so many huge expanses of 

 useless, undesirable country, we cannot disregard 

 those which are rich, not only in vague, unsub- 

 stantial promise, but in actual achievement and 

 work well done. Of these latter Zambezia is as- 

 suredly one, whilst her natural advantages are so 

 numerous, and her possibihties so infinite, that 

 her future will unquestionably prove as bright as 

 her past has been stormy. 



