chap, ix.] COMMERCE WITH THE INTERIOR. 
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according to Wliite Nile rules, and the abominable 
system of cattle robbery would be avoided. 
“ The great difficulty attending trade in a distant 
country is the want of means of transport, one tribe, 
being generally hostile to the adjoining, fears to afford 
porters beyond the frontier. If I can prove that the 
Lake Luta N zige is one source of the Nile with a 
navigable junction, I can at once do away with the 
great difficulty, and open up a direct trade for Koor- 
shid. The Lake is in Kamrasi’s own dominions; 
thus he will have no fear in supplying porters to 
deliver the ivory at a depot that might be established, 
either on the lake or at its junction with the Nile. A 
vessel should be built upon the lake, to trade with the 
surrounding coasts, and to receive the ivory from the 
dep6t. 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 
villainous cut-throats to the White Nile expeditions, 
and I fear it would be difficult to raise the number of 
