Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-10
IN THE DAYS NEWS
RhodeSia.

Africa, not so long ago regarded for the most part as Asepulcher of the " -rld's most daring explorers" nov engages Tile attention of the world b.: cause ot. ts .s'tlsr natural resources a;la us industi lal possibilities. ..o
 The National Geographic society has been issuing a series of bulletins on the boom continent" of which the following, based on a communication tO tke society from R. D. Parsons, is the ti.iyd:
 Interior Rhodesia must be traversed by native carriers over mountains, through privemal forests, across rivers, through almost impenetrahle jungle and underbrush. in peril from ele- phants, lions. leopards, yhenas. ser- pents. the tsetse fly, wild men as well as wild beasts. Each carrier has a mail bag of 50 pounds. On an average carriers make 25 miles day, and even on runs of 500 miles, from Brokeu Hill
 to AbeFcern, they are seldom more than an hour behind schedule time and generally only half that. They make
 better time in the wet season than in the dry as, in the wet they travel in
 bare feet, while in the dry the earth is
 baked, the sround is hot like The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and they are compelled to wear sandals. There is one great drawback to the wet; no material has yet been pro- duoed that can resist African rain. It laughs at the average Fubberized fab rics. One of the few partly successful materials is a peculiarly woven canvas made in England and even when mail bags of this material are opened the contents are simply pulp-valueless and frequently undeeipherabie. High To mi aat i, I,1 l Geographic. and in fact any glazed paper, suffers most: why | do not
 know. l suppose it is the combination l of heat and water.
 The Abereorn run is wonderful in i many peculiar ways; past Chitambo where Livingstone died. through the | marshy region and lake of Daugweole | across netahle rivers like Malambo Mwinel-ashi, Luansenshi and foveiy i Chanbezi, Lueulu and 14 others. ei woIidi'ous scenery. through the coun- ttries of the Watwa. Waun2a. the war 1 like Awemba, the agricultural AWiwa the Winamwanea (tobaeco growers) | and many other tribes. across the great Tanganyiila plateau and lake, through ! the forests of thousands of acres o1 rubber trees and the wonderful rubhe, wines whose roots can supply the world and at last reach the border of what
 was formerly German East Africa. ." "The plunge of Victoria Falls on the | Zambezi is three times that of oul
 Niagara, the roar is heard for 1e miles
 and the column of vapor is miles high In the dialect of Mashonaland anG
 Matabeleland it's name means the
 water that smokes as.s- | From Kasempa to Livingstone l Victoria Falls) is 5s0 miles from ;Liv- 1 ingstone to Buiawave 200, and from
 Kasempa to Cape Town 9.ss0 miles l The fauna of Rhodesia is wonderful think of IT kinds Of antelopes.. | As for area. northeastern Rhodesis contains almost 60000 square miles 1 and it is only one of three divisiors l What memorial to Cecil Rhodes. tht empire builder. For harbaric splen
 dor. nothing like his funeral was eve,
 seen. To use a phrase that aInuser
 the English. it faid out Napoieon's. a,
 described by Thackeray. When m,
 cousin starts on the semi-;innna
 'ulendo' (trip) around his district, tn.
 scene at every African village is eaua