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morning and in the evening, and one small tin of sardines 

 per day shared with scrupulous fairness. We soon knew by 

 heart how many sardines a small tin usually contains. On 

 this meagre allowance we marched on foot twenty, some- 

 times thirty, miles per day. From the day we left Lake Nyassa 

 to the day w^e reached Kilwa took us exactly two months. 

 Sometimes, but very rarely indeed, did an antelope as a wind- 

 fall hnd its way to our table. 



Count Teleki describes in his book, how he had to shoot 

 game for his caravan ; yet more than one of his porters suc- 

 cumbed to want of food, according to what I was told by 

 some of my men who had accompanied Teleki. I have since 

 heard, how other travellers, after crossing such foodless tracts, 

 have found themselves suddenly amongst strange races of men 

 living in comparative affluence, owning flocks and herds, and 

 possessing an abundant store of corn. 



The gold-fields that have been found in South Africa make 

 it probable that eastward there are other gold-fields not yet dis- 

 covered. 



We all know how valuable ivory is ; in fact, the British 

 Government, to protect the elephant from extermination, has 

 already defined a large area as a sanctuary for it. By recent 

 game laws in British East Africa, the hunter has to pay ^^25 to 

 start with, and this license permits the holder to shoot not 

 more than two elephants. Yet Count Teleki told me himself 

 of regions he has visited during his explorations, where natives 

 were ignorant of the value of ivory, and where consequently it 

 lay on the ground where the elephant had died. Many a tusk was 

 simply picked up by Teleki. It almost sounds a fable, but 1 

 had it from his own mouth, that he returned to the coast with 

 ivory which realised straight off something like;^20oo. He did 

 not go as a trader, but as an explorer, never expecting to get 

 any pecuniary returns from his journey, still less such a sum. 



It is therefore not impossible, that unknown races in some 

 of these unknown regions have a superabundance of gold 

 which, like the ivory just mentioned, is spurned by the foot of 

 the savage who is unconscious of its value. 



Hitherto neither gold nor coal, nor any other mineral 

 resources, have been discovered either in Uganda or in the 

 East African Protectorate ; some silver was found near the 

 coast, but not worth the expense of working it. 



