Our Last "Safari" 



ment for a new site at Bunia on the Kilo-Lake Albert road, 

 one and a half days' march to the north-west, where there 

 is a wireless installation. The south-west corner of Lake 

 Albert lies three days' journey to the east of the present 

 township and the Kilo gold mines are the same distance 

 to the north. 



Dutchmen — and lately some Englishmen — have been 

 quick to realise the opportunity afforded for farming and 

 agriculture by the suitability of the neighbourhood, its 

 healthy climate, heavy rainfall, rich soil and the increasing 

 market of the Kilo mines. The terms of land tenure are 

 the most equitable I know of in Africa to-day, and there is 

 a decided advantage in the accessibility of the district through 

 the Uganda Railway. 



The wealth of the Belgian Congo is perhaps nowhere 

 better exemplified than in this north-eastern portion of 

 the territory, for here lie some of the richest alluvial gold 

 areas in the world, how rich no one can at present estimate, 

 and they stand in a well-watered, upland country, in every 

 way suitable for white settlement, where native labour is 

 abundant and cheap and on the edge of a limitless forest, 

 containing — as well as giant timbers — oil and rubber and 

 a never-ending supply of beautiful ivory. 



The Kilo-Moto gold mines were discovered by a prospector 

 named Hannam some fifteen years ago. From the outset 

 there has been considerable mismanagement over these 

 wonderfully rich mines, and in spite of good advice, the 

 Belgians have followed, until recently, a careless policy 

 regarding them. Rightly handled there should be by this 

 time a large and thriving township in the vicinity second 

 to none in the whole colony, but opportunities have been 



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