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Show reading of entries in Livingstone's journal that guided Williams, as he has himself said, to his discovery of the immense mineral wealth along the Congo-Zambezi divide. Williams was an early associate of Cecil Rhodes and an ardent believer in the Cape-to-Cairo railway scheme. But neither he nor Hhodes was foolish fool-ish enough to suppose that a railway from the Cape to Cairo was an economic proposition in itself. The Cape-to-Cairo line was meant as a backbone from which ribs would ex-lend ex-lend on either side. Two years before be-fore his death Rhodes wrote, "The junctions to the east and west coasts, which will occur in the future, will be outlets for the traflic obtained along the route of the line as it passes through the center of Africa." Af-rica." That was written in 1000. the year in which Williams got his first mineral concession in Katanga. Today To-day two great "junction" lines are complete and, as Rhodes foresaw, they are taking to the markets of the world "the traffic obtained along the route of the (main Cape-to-Cairo) line." They are also opening up lands rich in agricultural and mineral min-eral possibilities. London Times. OUTLET FOR WEALTH OF CENTRAL AFRICA It is 75 years since David Livingstone Living-stone completed the first journey made by a white man across Africa, and that journey had taken two years. Now, following broadly Livingstone's Liv-ingstone's track from Angola to Mozambique, Mo-zambique, a very different transcontinental transcon-tinental journey is being made. The first train to cross Africa from ocean to ocean leaves Lobito now for Eeira, a distance of 2,049 miles by the route of the railway. The journey jour-ney has been rendered possible by the completion of the western section sec-tion of the route, that from Lobito bay by the Benguela railway and its continuation through the Belgian Congo to the Katanga copper field a field which extends into the adjacent ad-jacent regions of northern Rhodesia. The change that has come over this land in a single generation is remarkable. re-markable. As diamonds drew the railway from the cape to Kimberley, and as gold drew the railway on to the Rand, so copper has drawn the railway to the heart of . South Central Cen-tral Africa. Katanga, but yesterday a thousand miles from anywhere, almost al-most unknown t the white man, is now the most highly developed province prov-ince of the Belgian Congo. It has a considerable white population; its mines have already exported copper to the value of ,"12.000,000 ; and in Klisabethville it has an attractive capital, which at the moment is indulging in-dulging in its first international exhibition. ex-hibition. Across the border, in northern Rhodesia, there is promise of an almost equal development. And whether in Portuguese, Belgian or British territory the great change has been brought about mainly by British enterprise and with British capital. This is as it should be, for the opening up of the whole region originated orig-inated with the British. K to the courage and persistence of one man in particular, Sir Robert Williams, this change is due, then Livingstone Living-stone was the true pioneer. It was Livingstone who first kept open the road to the north, and it was the |