Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



and the eventual Murchison Falls at Fajao. 

 Kioga and Kwania are at present nothing but a 

 miserable waste of waters. They should, how- 

 ever, afford a grood means of communication for 

 export of produce from the comparatively un- 

 known tribes along their northern shores as soon 

 as these districts are opened up. These two 

 lakes would be invaluable as well as indispensable 

 for a line of light-draught, stern-wheel steamers 

 connecting a Uganda railway extension to 

 Kakindu with another branch railway from 

 Mruli or thereabouts, and so opening up the rich 

 province of Unyoro as far, perhaps, as the neigh- 

 bourhood of Fajao or Bugungu in the north- 

 east corner of Lake Albert. This would mean 

 through communication with Lake Albert and 

 the White Nile as far as Nimule, besides opening 

 up an artery for the export of the products of 

 almost the whole of the Eastern Congo, from 

 Mahagi on the east shore of Lake Albert. It 

 will be a great day for the British Empire 

 when all is joined up. 



There is nothing like being an optimist ! I 

 came across a splendid definition of a pessimist 

 the other day. He who has the choice of two 

 evils and takes them both ! 



To continue. The great Mruli of the days 

 of Sir Samuel Baker's untrustworthy friend — - 

 Kabarega — is " done finish ! " More or less of 

 a pestilential swamp has taken its place. A few 



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