Eastern Africa ~ Nyasaland.

(By "The Traveller" March 1936)

THIS British protectorate embraces an area of 37,600 sq. miles peopled by about 2,000
whites and 11 million natives of the Angoni, Awemba and Bashukulumbwe races.
The climate is generally regarded as being healthy but in the lower river places, hot and
unhealthy.

Agriculture is the main industry, vide the different slogan postmarks: —
Limbe, SMOKE IMPERIALLY.
Zomba, DRINK NYSALAND TEA AND COFFEE.
Blantyre, NYASALAND DARKEST AFRICA IN FAIREST MOOD.
Mlanje, DRINK NYASALAND TEA.

Stock raising is also fairly well developed. A correspondent sends along
information which may be of interest to readers.
BLANTYRE, the Capital, is a commercial town with a population of 250. LIMBE, the
other important centre, is a produce centre of some 200 souls, distant six miles from
Blantyre. There is an internal air service conducted by the Rhodesian and Nyasaland
Airways Ltd., with a fine aerodrome at Blantyre, known as the Chileka aerodrome. The
first aerodrome was put down at Limbe after the Great War (Nyasaland was one of the
centres where a campaign was conducted against the Germans) and this ground is no
doubt regarded as an Emergency landing ground.

The establishment of a direct air mail service to Southern Rhodesia connecting with the
Imperial Airways service saw the construction of the Chileka Aerodrome which is
situated approximately ten miles from Blantyre. Mails are brought from the aerodrome to
Blantyre for distribution.

This concludes a somewhat brief description of this tropical spectacular
lake-river-plateau-river valley East African land—Nyasaland.