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THE KILIMA-NJAEO EXPEDITION. 
they are sold, when dry, at about one dollar for seven 
pounds. 
Rhinoceros horns I have already alluded to. They 
find a ready sale on the coast, fetching on an average, 
five shillings apiece. 
Live-stock of all kinds may be purchased cheaply in 
the interior, and find a ready market on the coast. 
There is even another source of profit in which, 
although many people laugh when I suggest it, I see 
nothing ridiculous, viz. the capture and sale of wild 
animals. If it can pay Hamburg and Austrian firms 
to hunt, and employ hunters on the confines of Abys¬ 
sinia, for the purpose of supplying the zoological 
gardens of the world with wild animals, why should 
not the same thing be done here, where animal life is 
present to a degree which puts Abyssinia and the 
Eastern Soudan to shame. If you can get from 100Z. 
to 200 1. for a young rhinoceros, elephant, hippo¬ 
potamus, or giraffe, with lesser sums, in proportion, 
for large antelopes, zebras, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, 
leopards, snakes, and crocodiles, surely it is worth 
while to capture them in districts like these, that are 
actually nearer the sea than the hunting-grounds of 
the German firms, and where the natives are already 
familiar with such a trade, and with the mode of cap¬ 
turing wild animals alive ? When I was on Kilima¬ 
njaro and Taveita, the natives were always bringing 
me live creatures for sale, and I have already mentioned 
how cheaply I bought young ostriches. 
Another important trade product would be orchilla 
weed, which may be gathered for nothing in the vast 
forests of Kilima-njaro. I have already mentioned its 
selling price on the coast. 
Iron, copper, and nitrate of soda might pay profit 
