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SIR HARRY JOHNSTON has had a unique opportunity, and he has made the most of it. Most areas in Africa over which European protectorates have been established during the past twenty years are vast in size, varied in population, as a rule unhealthy in climate, and commercially unprofitable. In the Congo Free State, Rhodesia, British East Africa, Damaraland, German East Africa and Erithrea, all the best efforts of the administration have been necessarily devoted to a struggle against almost insuperable difficulties. In these cases the leaven of European yeast is so small in proportion to the vast bulk of African meal, that one part of the mass has begun to putrefy before the rest has lightened.
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Nyasa-Land1. Nature 57, 174–175 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057174a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057174a0