'Southern Africa' - actually 'the British Southern Africa

'Southern Africa' - actually 'the British Southern Africa.' The German part or is substantially fruitless or otherwise inaccessible. The Portuguese part - only a narrow strip along east coast which most part is too sick for habitation except natives. Two republics are quickly filled with the British people, develop the British capital, and should become in time with the states which surround them. One of them, also, already is under British suzerainty. The British Southern Africa, however, is for the present only the name. It does not have any real existence except in hope. The aspiration of statesmen in southern Africa consists that all territories of southern Africa at the British control should generate one confederation and that in this confederation Orange Free State and the South African republic should join. The territories entering this confederation, therefore would be the following: Self-coping colonies of the Colony of Cape and , the British colony of Basutoland, protectorates of Bechuanaland and Zululand, territories which the British Southern Africa the [162] Company usually known as '' now operates, and the British Central African protectorate, with besides two republics earlier, are mentioned.
The length of this offered South African dominion would make 1800 miles. Its width would be from 600 to 800 miles. And, as it is told above, its area would make approximately 1 000 000 square miles. Stanley foretells, that in hundred years 'the Dominion of Southern Africa' will have white population 8 000 000, and the colour population 16 000 000.
AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA