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APPENDIX D. 



AETICLES OF EXPORT. 



It is important in dealing with the commercial side of 

 articles of export to work out the freight and miscellaneous 

 charges, as any article which does not reach the value so 

 obtained may be at once disregarded. 



The cost of freight, customs, charges, petties, interest, 

 landing, warehouse, insurance and commission, will prob- 

 ably amount to at least £2 per ton, from either Mombasa 

 or Chinde to London. 



Now by the suggested railway from Mombasa to Uganda 

 I have shown (in Chap. XVIII.) that the cost of freight 

 cannot be taken as less than 5s. per train mile, that is to 

 say, i'165 per train for 657 miles, or assuming 50 tons to 

 the train, £3 6s. per ton. 



No article worth less than £5 6s. per ton can therefore 

 be exported from Uganda. This must be carefully borne 

 in mind, if one is to realise the relative importance of 

 the articles mentioned below. 



It is obvious that most food products must be at once 

 left out. 



Banana. — The banana certainly yields very valuable 

 products for local use (see p. chap, hi.), and maybe grown 

 anywhere up to 6,600 feet, but for the reason given 

 above, there seems no chance of export. 



Ivory.- — The number of elephants now existing in 

 British territory is not by any means a large one. I have 

 attempted in the following to show where they are to be 

 expected at present. They still exist not very far from 

 Kikuyu to the north-east, and apparently extend all round 

 Kenia, and from thence to Mount Elgon. I came across 

 numerous traces of them in the Mau forest, between Kaomi 

 and the Guaso Masai. There are also probably some left 

 in Sotik and Lumbwa. From Elgon they appear to be 

 found along the Somerset Nile to Unyoro and the Albert 



