The international geography . constructed to Lake Nyasa, and a railway is incontemplation. Lake Nyasa is navigated by several commercial steamers,and is patrolled by three British gunboats. There are one British steamerand several British sailing vessels on Lake Tanganyika. The BritishSouth Africa Company has sailing boats on Lake Mweru. Elsewhere ofithis main line of road the only means of communication are the nativepaths, which criss-cross the country in all directions. Transport alongthese routes is effected by native porterage. A telegraph line from SouthAfrica passes through the British
The international geography . constructed to Lake Nyasa, and a railway is incontemplation. Lake Nyasa is navigated by several commercial steamers,and is patrolled by three British gunboats. There are one British steamerand several British sailing vessels on Lake Tanganyika. The BritishSouth Africa Company has sailing boats on Lake Mweru. Elsewhere ofithis main line of road the only means of communication are the nativepaths, which criss-cross the country in all directions. Transport alongthese routes is effected by native porterage. A telegraph line from SouthAfrica passes through the British Central Africa, and a railway fromRhodesia reaches far into the interior. There are at present no towns ofany size. The largest settlement of Europeans is Blanty7e; the administra-tive capital of the Protectorate is Zomba. General Character and Statistics.—The essential characteristicsof British Central Africa are those of a great tropical dependency, whichmay in time become peopled by many millions of black men, but which. British Central Africa 951 is not suited any more than India for European colonisation. Europeanscan maintain fair health on the more elevated districts, but the countryis emphatically not one where the European can make a permanenthome or be anything more than a temporary settler as planter or country as a whole is unhealthy ; but as money is made very quicklyover coffee planting, and as there are considerable gold mining prospectsthe European immigrants slowly increase. The entire European popula-tion in the year 1898 scarcely exceeded 450 souls, of whom all buta few are British subjects. Nyasaland is celebrated for its thrivingsettlers of Scottish race, who have been the main agents in bringing thisterritory within the sphere of British interests. The area of British Cen-tral Africa can only be given approximately while the western frontierwith Portugal remains unsettled. It may be roughly stated at 300,000square miles. The average value of t
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