APPENDIX. 



UGANDA'S TRADE AND PROSPECTS. 



In talking of the colony of Uganda, the most 

 popular mistake made is in relation to its altitude. 

 It is pointed out that the Uganda Railway, after 

 leaving Nairobi, climbs to an altitude of over 

 8,000 feet, and the natural deduction is that the 

 climate of Uganda must be very healthy and fit 

 for white colonization; but, unfortunately, it is not 

 so. The railway, after ascending the Mau escarp- 

 ment, in the highlands of British East Africa, 

 descends very rapidly on its way to the Victoria 

 Nyanza, whose altitude is not more than 5,000 feet 

 above sea-level. 



Now the highlands of British East Africa may 

 be a white man's country, although living at such 

 an immense height acts upon the constitution, and 

 may for some people prove too great a strain; but 

 Uganda is not a white man's country so far as 

 climate is concerned. Nevertheless its future is 

 bright, since it has been conclusively proved that 

 the soil is well adapted to the cultivation of cotton, 

 and the considerable progress that has been made 

 in the establishment of plantations, and the rapid 

 and flourishing growth of rubber, cocoa, and coffee 



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