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is still carried on by all Europeans residing in the less settled parts of British 
Central Africa. The imported trade goods consisted chiefly of cotton stuffs 
from Manchester and Bombay, beads from Birmingham and Venice, blankets 
from England, India and Austria, fezzes from Algeria and from Newcastle- 
under-Lyne, boots from Northampton, felt hats from various parts of England, 
hardware and brass wire and hoes from Birmingham, cutlery from Sheffield, 
and various fancy goods from India. 
The trade products which British Central Africa gives us in exchange for 
these goods and for much English money in addition are : Ivory, coffee, hippo, 
teeth, rhinoceros horns, cattle, hides, wax, rubber, oil seeds, sanseviera fibre, 
tobacco, sugar (locally consumed), wheat (ditto), maize (ditto), sheep, goats and 
poultry (ditto), timber (ditto), and the Strophanthus drug. 
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KAHN AND CO’s TRADING STORE AT KOTAKOTA 
It only remains to say a few words about the relations between the 
Europeans and the natives. I am convinced that this eastern portion of 
British Central Africa will never be a white man’s country in the sense that 
all Africa south of the Zambezi, and all Africa north of the Sahara will 
eventually become—countries where the white race is dominant and native to the 
soil. Between the latitudes of the Zambezi and the Blue Nile, Africa must in 
the first instance be governed in the interests of the black man, and the black 
man will there be the race predominant in numbers, if not in influence. The 
future of Tropical Africa is to be another India ; not another Australia. The 
white man cannot permanently colonise Central Africa ; he can only settle on a 
few favoured tracts, as he would do in the North of India. Yet Central Africa 
possesses boundless resources in the way of commerce, as it is extremely rich 
in natural products,—animal, vegetable and mineral. These it will pay the 
European to develop and should equally profit the black man to produce. 
Untaught by the European he was living like an animal, miserably poor in the 
midst of boundless wealth. Taught by the European he will be able to develop 
