TRANSPORT. 



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stations and trading and Government posts. I 

 estimated that I saw five times as many porters 

 during the fourteen days that I spent in crossing 

 as I saw during two and a half months' journey 

 from Mombasa to Uganda. There is still ivory 



Fig. 43. — Maungu Waterhole. 



near the route, and it is probably the best way to 

 the Katanga mineral country. 



The 400 miles of Tanganyika is at present com- 

 mercially untried. There are at least six mission 

 stations, and both the German and Belgian Govern- 



