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vessel should be built upon the lake, to trade with the 
surrounding coasts, and to receive the ivory from the 
depot. This vessel would then descend from the lake 
to the White Nile to the head of the cataracts, where 
a camp should be formed, from which, in a few days’ 
march, the ivory would reach Gondokoro. 
“A large trade might thus be established, as not only 
Unyoro would supply ivory, but the lake would open 
the navigation to the very heart of Africa. The 
advantage of dealing with Kamrasi direct would be 
great, as he is not a mere savage, demanding beads 
and bracelets; but he would receive printed cottons, 
and goods of various kinds, by which means the ivory 
would be obtained at a merely nominal rate. The 
depot on the Luta N’zige should be a general store, at 
which the vessel ascending from the station above the 
cataracts would deliver the various goods from Gon¬ 
dokoro, and from this store the goods would be dis¬ 
seminated throughout the countries bordering the lake 
by means of vessels. 
“ The only drawback to this honest trade would be 
the general hatred of anything honest by the Khar- 
toumers ; the charms of cattle razzias and slave¬ 
hunting, with the attendant murders, attract these 
villanous cut-throats to the White Nile expeditions, 
and I fear it would be difficult to raise the number of 
