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British Government, in the District of Toro, in Western Unvoro, and also 

 on Kavirondo Bay. Whether this salt would be worth exportation is a 

 matter of doulit, but it circulates throughout a good deal of Central Africa 

 as a valuable article of barter. It, therefore, has an intrinsic value as a 

 som'ce of revenue to the State. Broadly speaking, however, at the present 

 time no absolute discovery of unquestioned mineral wealth has been made 

 in the Uganda Protectorate ; though it must always be remembered that 

 Africa is the continent of surprises, and Uganda may yet be found to 

 contain payable gold which, with the aid of railway and steamer transport, 



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can be worked at a profitable rate. Since, however, we can only deal with 

 known assets, we must at present look to the development of a really 

 prosperous commerce by means of animal and vegetalile productions. 



As regards animal productions, there is ivory of the very best quality. 

 So long as the British Government can determinedly enforce the Game 

 Eegulations by a small annual expenditure, and protect female and immature 

 male elephants from being killed bj' natives or Europeans, there will not 

 be much danger of the African elephant becoming extinct in a territory 

 so large as this, where Nature has reserved vast marshes and leagues of 



