e relations of the Company to it, which will present
much difficulty.

The country lying north of the Zambesi has been divided into two
districts, North East Rhodesia and North West Rhodesia, each of which is
placed under an Administrator appointed by the Company, the extreme
North Western strip, towards the Portuguese territory, remaining
meantime under the more direct authority of the High Commissioner. It
is understood that these areas also are to be regulated by Orders in
Council.

6. Leaving out of sight the still unsettled problem of the mineral
wealth of these territories, they are in other respects one of the most
promising parts of South Africa. I have remarked that as regards pasture
and agriculture they are superior to the inland parts of Cape Colony.
They are in these points also superior to the Transvaal, and still more
plainly superior to the neighbouring possessions of Germany and
Portugal. Portuguese East Africa is fever-stricken. German East Africa
is in many places barren and almost everywhere malarious. German
South-west Africa is largely desert, much of it an arid and
irreclaimable desert.

To the English race in South Africa the acquisition of these regions, or
at least of the parts south of the Zambesi, has been an immense
political and economic advantage. It has established their predominance
and provided a security against any serious attempt to dislodge them. A
philosophic observer without predilections for any one state or people
would, it is conceived, hold that the English race is more likely to
serve what are termed the interests of civilization in this part of
Africa than is any other race. The Portuguese have neither energy nor
capital. The Germans, with energy and with capital, have not the
requisite practice in independent colonization, nor perhaps the taste
for it. The South African Dutch Boers, who have within the last
seventeen years been more than once on the point of occupying the
country, are, with all their good qualities, a backward people, who, had
they prevailed, would have done little more than squat here and there
over the country with their cattle, and carry on an incessant desultory
war with the natives. Whether it is really desirable that the waste
lands of the world should be quickly brought under settled order and
have their resources developed with all possible speed, is a question
on which much might be said. But assuming, as most men, perhaps too
hastily, do assum