COMM i: Pv( MAI. IMiOS P h:CTS 2!):', 



ai)[:ly to cotton, salt, tobacco, and not a few of tlip suhstancf-s inclu<l('<l 

 in the following list. 



Ele})hant ivory, hi|iiK)!)otainus teetli. 



Skins of lions, leopards, wild-cats, and other Hnimals possessing liandsdiiH' fur, and 

 not on the Protected List. 



Hides (oxen, sheep, goats', and wild animals' ii<it on the Protected List). 



Live-stock (cattle, shee]), goats, asses, and wild aiunials and birds of interest to 

 zoological collections). 



Beeswax. 



Cotfee. 



Indiarubber of fonr or five kinds. 



Sugar. 



Tobacco. 



Cotton. 



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



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

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



Dye woods. 



Drugs {Strophanthus, etc.). 



Gums (acacia, copal, incense, shellac). 



Grain (maize, sorghum, millet, eleusine). 



Food-stuffs of a not too (juickly jjerishable nature, such as jjotatoes, beans, p)eas, dhal. 



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



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



Chillies. 



Food-stuffs which nught be ju'operly cultivated in the I'ganda Protectorate and 

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



Minerals : Gold(?), iron, plumbago, salt. 



Uganda contains limestone in the Nyando \'alley, and in many i)arts 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 i^ Co. and Koustead 

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 extent withdrawn owing to the difficulties of transport, and in some cases to 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

 completion of the railway and tlie ])lacing of capacious steamers on the 

 A'ictoria Nyanza. Whether they are wise or nor in awaiting events I cannot 

 say. iNIeantime two Cierman firms 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 



