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apply to cotton, salt, tobacco, and not a few of the substances included 

 in the following list. 



Elei)liant ivory, hijtpopotainus teeth. 



Skins of lions, leopards, wild-cats, and other animals possessing handsome fur, and 

 not on the Protected list. 



Hides (oxen, sheep, goats', and wild animals' not on the Protected List). 



Live-stock (cattle, sheep, goats, asses, and wild animals and l)irds of interest to 

 zoological collections). 



Beeswax. 



Coffee. 



Indiaruhber of four or five kinds. 



Sugar. 



Tobacco. 



Cotton. 



Fibre of many kinds, some especially suitable for rope-making. 



Timber (juniper, yew, ebony, African teak, African mahogany, acacia-wood, red- 

 wood, bamboo, ii'on-wood, etc.). 



Dye woods. 



Drugs {Sfrophant/iKS, etc.). 



Gunis (acacia, copal, incense, shellac). 



Grain (maize, sorghum, millet, eleusine). 



Food-stuffs of a not too quickly perishable nature, such as potatoes, beans, peas, dhal. 



Oil-seeds (ground-nuts, sesamum, castor-oil). 



Cardamoms, turmeric, and other substances used in the East as spice. 



Chillies. 



Food-stuffs which might be ]iroperly cultivated in the I'ganda Protectorate and 

 eventually for export : Wheat, oats, rice, coffee, tea, cacao. 



Minerals : GoldC?), iron, plumbago, salt. 



Uganda contains limestone in the Nyando Valley, and in many parts of 

 the Protectorate excellent building stone; and brick-making, pottery, and 

 porcelain clays. 



At the time of writing, British trade — that is to say, commerce conducted 

 by natives of the United Kingdom — is by no means to the fore in the 

 Uganda Protectorate. The firms of Smith, ^lackenzie & Co. and Boustead 

 Ridley were both until recently established in Uganda. Both ha"e to a great 

 extent withdrawn owing to the difficulties of transport, and in some cases to 

 a series of unlooked-for misfortunes. These and other British firms, in fact, 

 have decided to hold their hands and restrain their enterprise until the 

 completion of the railway and the placing of capacious steamers on the 

 Victoria Nyanza. Whether they are wise or not in awaiting events I cannot 

 say. Meantime two German fiiais are pushing ahead in all directions. One 

 of these is the German East Africa Company. I understand that both 

 the German firms are either subsidised by their own Government or by 

 the German Colonial Society, and that this help enables them to create and 

 carry on an extensive trade in Uganda regardless of present profits or losses 



