Through Angola : a Corning Colony. By Colonel J. C.
B. Statham. (Blackwood. 28s. net.)—Colonel Statham went to Angola in 1920 to hunt the giant sable antelope. He travelled into the interior both of Northern and of Southern Angola, and has produced the most comprehensive account of the old Portuguese colony that we have seen in English. Though the high plateau inland is healthy enough, the country has made little progress for generations, through lack of labour, capital and enterprise. The author says, however, that Americans have taken up large concessions, covering a third of the colony. If the railway from Benguella to the Katanga copper-mines is ever completed, it will doubtless benefit Angola, though the South African railways will lose some of the mineral traffic. The book is well illustrated and has a good map. The author suggests that some Of the Angola Portuguese have charged the cocoa-planters of San Thome with being slave-owners, because they pay better wages to the emigrant negroes from Angola than the Angola planters can afford.
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