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In Uganda there are only coffee, ivory, and tobacco. 

 All kinds of cereals, beans, and peas could not 

 even pay the working expenses of their conveyance, 

 namely £8 3s. per ton. Cattle, if bought in Usoga 

 for ,£3 and sold at the coast for £10 to £12, would 

 just pay expenses of conveyance.* 



The Natal Government lines mentioned above 

 are about 400 miles in length and obtained a 

 revenue of £465,871 with an expenditure of 

 £300,000 in 1894. 



The Beira railway charges, I believe, £6 per ton 

 on a line 118 miles in length, and its expenses 

 amount to £2,500 a month, or £30,000 per annum, 

 though whether this includes interest on capital or 

 not, I cannot find out. 



It is necessary also to examine the question of 

 pack animals to see exactly how African transport 

 is situated in this respect. 



The main advantage of pack animals lies in their 

 requiring absolutely no road-making. They can 

 be driven along ordinary native paths excepting 

 only such places as Uganda in the wider sense 

 and Unyoro where the numerous swamps and 

 rivers made their use undesirable. 



* The Government having apparently decided on a much 

 lower gauge than that recommended in the Mombasa report, 

 this reasoning does not apply, but it is obvious that there is no 

 alteration in the comparison between the two railway routes 

 which follows. 



