Africa's Great Highway.
Africa has a vast natural highway, about 4,000 tfliles in length, extending longitudinally through that Continent. Roughly speaking, it is in three sections. The northern part is the Nile. The central division ie the great chain of lakes— Albert, Victoria, Tanganyika, Nyassa. The southern portion comprises the Shire and Zambesi rivers. Between these sections and at the cataracts ot the Nile are overland reaches that amsfc bo spanned by railroads. All the rest of the way is easily and safely navigable by steamboats. Similarly a railroad around the rapide of the Congo—for building which steps have already been taken—and another irom its upper waters to the lakes, would give a second vast thoroughfare, tapping the first midway and traversing almost the entire Continent} from east to •west. Thus there would be three lines of modern transportation from the heart of Africa directly to the Atlantic, to the Mediterranean and to tho Indian Ocean.—'N.Y. •Tribune,'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1890, Page 3 (Supplement)
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