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if brought within reach of Europeans, would find a ready 
market — ivory, coffee, gums, resins, myrrh, lion, leopard, 
otter, and goat * skins, ox-hides, snow-white monkey- 
skins, and bark cloth, besides fine cattle, sheep, and 
goats. Among the chief vegetable productions are the 
papaw, banana, plantain, yams, sw T eet potatoes, peas, 
several kinds of beans, melons, cucumbers, vegetable 
marrow, manioc, and tomatoes. Of grains, there are to 
be found in the neighbourhood of the capital wheat, 
rice, maize, sesamum, millets, and vetches. 
The soil of the lake coast region from the extremity 
of Usoga to the Alexandra Nile is of inexhaustible 
fertility. The forests are tall and dense, and the teak 
SMALL TEMBE. 
and cottonwood, tamarind, and some of the gum-trees 
grow to an extraordinary height, while many of the 
lower uninhabited parts near the lake are remarkable 
for the density, luxuriance, and variety of their vegeta- 
tion. 
The higher land, for the most part devoid of trees 
and covered with grass, appears better adapted for 
pasture, though the plantain and fig trees flourish on 
the summit of the hills with the same vigour as near the 
lake. 
Westward of the smooth, rolling, pastoral country 
which characterizes the interior of Usoga and Uganda, 
* The white goats of Usoga are like the famous Angora goats with 
tine silky hair from 4 to 8 inches in length. 
