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which are unfortunately necessary in this century, 

 by the African Lakes Koute, and by that route 

 alone. 



Moreover, it would be in strict accordance with 

 the spirit of British colonisation to develop and 

 foster the present thriving colonisation in South 

 Central Africa, and push upwards and northwards 

 through them. 



Moreover, it developes British Central Africa, 

 obtains for us the trade of Tanganyika, and opens 

 up the whole of East Africa. It is only the last 

 that is produced by the Mombasa line. 



The policy of enormous initial expenditure, 

 with the hope that something may come of it, 

 is a French, and the pushing forward of rail- 

 ways through a new T and unsettled country is an 

 American idea. It succeeds in the United States, 

 where New York and Chicago are at the other end 

 of the line. It is doomed to fail in Africa. That 

 is the lesson which is clearly to be read from the 

 present state of Australia and the disastrous failure 

 of the Imperial British East Africa Company. 



There are two distinct advantages in the Mom- 

 basa railway. One is the rapidity with which 

 mails or men could be sent into the country ; but 

 it must be borne in mind that all military opera- 

 tions in Uganda or towards the north will have to 

 be carried on by native troops led by Europeans, 

 not by British regiments. The Waganda and 

 Soudanese will probably, with training, quite equal 



