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disease, we have no proof that in Central Africa a storeJiouse for the 
germ other than game may not exist. 
‘ Irrevocable measures are not called for to satisfy the materialistic 
and often speculative desires of the few: for the many, a proper 
knowledge of the disease and the adoption of trained advice as to 
how it can often be avoided, may tide over the time till an effectual 
cure or a specific means of prevention be made known ; and we 
earnestly urge that less draconic measures may be given a full and 
fair trial before the death warrant of the greatest natural attraction 
of Central Africa be signed. 
R. Eustace Montgomery. 
Allan Kinghorn. 
Madona, North-Eastern Rhodesia, January 28M, 1908. 
In correspondence dated Madona, February 7th, igo8, the investi¬ 
gators state: — 
‘ With regard to the report we should like to remark that we 
disagree with the policy of the Tanganyika Concessions, Limited, in 
sending loads to Kambove with natives from this country. By 
refusing permission to recruit labour for the mines, and still allowing 
loads to be taken in, we think that the Administration is placing itself 
in rather a false position. The Tanganyika Concessions, Limited, 
if required, would, we think, be able to find carriers in the Katanga 
as they have to do with regard to loads coming in via Broken Hill. 
Tliey say they are taking precautions to prevent these carriers becoming 
infected, but these precautions only consist in cutting a road about 12 
feet wide along a route in which Gl. morsitans is very plentiful, and 
by the establishment of food stations away from the villages. The 
natural tendency would be for the natives to try and stay in the 
Katanga to work, and in at least one instance a negro has run away 
from the gang when returning to Madona. Of course, he may not 
have gone back to the mines, but this is the likeliest thing, as they 
are paid on getting back there. 
‘ Another rather anomalous proceeding of the local government is 
the official declaration of the 10 mile strip along the Luapula to be 
infected, so that natives come into this area on their way to Kambove, 
which is “ uninfected.” Thus we have the passage of negroes from 
infected to uninfected territory and vice versd. 
' Yours faithfully, 
‘ Allan Kinghorn. 
