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The French fathers have manufactured cigars from it ; 

 they also say that it is liable to the attacks of an insect, 

 but I do not think from what I have seen that this is the 

 case in most parts. I think the climate should make 

 curing a matter of no difficulty, and the prospects of 

 raising good tobacco seemed extremely probable. 



Food Products. — Vine. — The trials by the French 

 fathers have so far proved unsuccessful ; but it seems to 

 me probable that there are large areas in which vines 

 would bear extremely well. 



Wheat. — "Wheat has been successfully grown in Uganda, 

 both by Europeans and natives ; and the ground on which 

 I have seen it is a kind of soil and climate in no way 

 differing from that found over enormous areas of the 

 British sphere of influence. It is specially in Uganda, 

 Unyoro, Usoga, Kavirondo, and parts of Toru that I have 

 noticed the sort of soil and position in which it is grown 

 in Uganda. It seems to me, therefore, that East Africa 

 might in time become one of the great wheat-producing 

 countries of the world ; and even at present a European 

 might find it profitable to cultivate wheat on a large scale 

 for local demand. This demand would, however, be solely 

 confined to Europeans, as the natives do not care for it. 



Bice. — One of the things which appeared to me most 

 astonishing in the whole district was the absence of rice. 

 The enormous swamps of Uganda, Unyoro, Ankole, &c, 

 where, in fact, almost every valley is filled by a broad 

 morass, seemed to me to be natural rice fields of a most 

 easily cultivated kind. In the interior of Madagascar rice 

 is grown in similar swamps, at an altitude higher than that 

 of most parts of Uganda, or more frequently about the 

 same (4,000 to 5,000 feet). The cause seems simply to be 

 the presence of the universal banana. It is true that rice 

 cultivated at Kampala has proved a complete failure, but 

 in the patch which I saw it had been suffered to get 

 entirely dry, and had not been grown in a swamp at all. 

 It seems to me that if the natives could be induced to 



