382 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



books of travel. This means that in the future 

 Great Britain will be greatly behind all other 

 nations in all scientific work. People inspired 

 with a quite irrepressible love of nature may not 

 be influenced by such considerations, but that is 

 not a common characteristic in any country. 



In regard to such goods as are required for 

 paying one's way, it is not possible to advise, 

 for savage fashions change more rapidly than 

 those of civilised nations. I can only suggest 

 " Amerikani ' as the most generally useful cloth. 

 In Uganda cheap made-up clothes, stationery, and 

 small fancy articles are much better than any kind 

 of cloth or beads. These latter are best obtained 

 in London, while the "Amerikani' should be 

 obtained in Zanzibar. 



I found a yard of ' ' Amerikani ' usually enough 

 to buy food for one man for twelve days, but the 

 proportion has probably greatly changed even 

 during this last year. It is best to ask the most 

 recent traveller from the country one proposes to 

 visit. In the Shire highlands or any locality 

 reached from them it would probably be best to 

 wait until arriving at Mandala before bying any- 

 thing of this kind. I was able to buy goods for 

 English sovereigns in Ujiji or Tanganyika, and 

 probably they would be current all over West and 

 South Africa as well as British Central Africa, the 

 Mediterranean coast, and East Africa as far inland 

 as Uganda. 



