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Title: | Connecting the Lakes: two Scottish pioneers |
Author: | MacCarthy, James |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | The Society of Malawi Journal |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 1-11 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Malawi |
Subjects: | colonial history trade routes road construction roads |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/29779151 |
Abstract: | Following David Livingstone's call to open up Africa to legitimate commerce to displace the slave trade, the whole question of developing communications in the interior for this purpose was being promoted. The focus was on finding a feasible trade route to the Central Lakes. The author examines the unpublished diaries of two Scottish pioneers in Nyasaland (now Malawi), viz. that of a civil engineer, William O. McEwan who, in 1884, was sent out to Nyasaland to supervise the building of a road between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika, to be named the Stevenson Road, and that of one of his assistants, Donald Munro. Both diaries present detailed background information on the building of the road and the often difficult circumstances surrounding its construction. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |