Africa’s Great Highway.
Africa has a vast natural highway,' about 4,000 miles in length, extending longitudinally through that Continent. Roughly speaking, it is in three sections. The northern part is the Nile. The central division is 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 of the Nile are overland reaches that must be spanned by railroads. All the rest of the way is easily and safely navigable by steamboats. Similarly a railroad around the rapids of the Congo—for building which steps have already been taken—and another , from its upper .waters to the lakes, would 1 give a second vast thoroughfare, tapping the first midway and traversing almost the entire Continent from east to west. 1 Thus there would be three lines of modern transportation from the heart of Africa directly to the Atlantic, to the Mediterranean and to the. Indian Ocean.—N.Y. 8 Tribune.’ 1
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 443, 5 February 1890, Page 3
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161Africa’s Great Highway. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 443, 5 February 1890, Page 3
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