Nyasaland Sentence Examples

The common or true duiker (C. grimmi) is found in bush-country from the Cape to the Zambezi and Nyasaland, and ranges northward on the west coast to Angola.

The cultivation of cotton on a commercial scale is quite new in Nyasaland, and although general conditions of soil and climate appear favourable the question of transport is serious and labour is not abundant.

Land lines connect Natal with every part of South Africa and with Nyasaland and Ujiji.

Tobacco cultivation has made considerable progress in Nyasaland (British Central Africa).

Whytei, recently discovered in Nyasaland and Rhodesia (the Mlanje cedar) is a fine tree reaching 150 ft.

From Beira to Port Herald the railway runs through Portuguese territory, but the Nyasaland Government guaranteed interest for 25 years on the capital (£I,20o,000) of the company which built the Beira-Chindio section.

In the north the Nyasaland railway ended at Blantyre, 120 m.

The most powerful influence was that of the Livingstonia Mission of the United Free Church, whose destinies in Nyasaland were guided for many years by Dr. Robert Laws.

The appointment of Mr. Smith, like Dr. Laws an Aberdeenian, was highly popular with the Nyasaland settlers, who are mainly Scots.

Practically every Briton of military age in the country was enrolled in the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve.

Later on Nyasaland became the base for Gen.

His followers, about 500, were mainly persons who had recently emigrated from Portuguese Nyasaland.

A considerable number of men who came from South Africa or Great Britain to serve against the Germans remained in Nyasaland as planters, and the area under cultivation largely increased.

While market fluctuations might be tided over, the future of Nyasaland remained very much dependent upon the completion of through railway communication from the ocean to Lake Nyasa.

Still the geographical results, though not in extent to be compared to those of his first and his final expeditions, were of high importance, as were those in various departments of science, and he had unknowingly laid the foundations of the British protectorate of Nyasaland.

The range of the species extends from the Congo and Angola to Nyasaland.

Whilst northern Africa was being folded, the East African plateau was broken up by a series of longitudinal rifts extending from Nyasaland to Egypt.

The Nyasaland battalions ®f the King's African Rifles served under him, while over 150,000 natives were employed as carriers.