A naturalist in Mid-Africa: being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika . man railway, which hasactually been commenced. The third is theAfrican Lakes Koute.* The map and elevations here given show prettyclearly the position and leading physical featuresof each. It is of course at once and immediatelyobvious that the Mombasa railway cannot possiblycompete with the German line in any civiliantransport or trade. It is 181 miles longer, andthe physical difficulties are very much more pro-nounced. Moreover, for military transport someform of conveyance from the shore
A naturalist in Mid-Africa: being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika . man railway, which hasactually been commenced. The third is theAfrican Lakes Koute.* The map and elevations here given show prettyclearly the position and leading physical featuresof each. It is of course at once and immediatelyobvious that the Mombasa railway cannot possiblycompete with the German line in any civiliantransport or trade. It is 181 miles longer, andthe physical difficulties are very much more pro-nounced. Moreover, for military transport someform of conveyance from the shore of the VictoriaNyanza to the Albert Nyanza is absolutelyessential if it is to be of real importance. If it is simply a question of carrying a fewofficers to the Albert Nyanza, we have in thisfortunate country so many anxious to go that itis quite unnecessary to build a railway to conveythem. On the other hand, to place a British * The German line is derived from Dr. Baumanns DurchMasailand zur Nilquelle. The Mombasa railway, Mom-basa Survey Eeport. The African Lakes Eoute from mytable of TRANSPORT. 321 regiment on the Albert Nyanza requires a chainof railways and steamers from the Yictoria to theAlbert Nyanza. If we wish to compete with Germany, therefore,in opening up Uganda and the Upper Nile toEnglish trade and commerce, some other waymust be discovered, and this is only possible bythe African Lakes Route. This route is not a new idea, and the advantageof it has been noticed so long ago as 1868, by Arthington, of Leeds. Dr. Parkes was alsostrongly in favour of it; but it appears to haveslipped out of public notice in England for someyears. This route is as follows. The important point issimply to utilise the Shire, Zambesi, Nyassa, andTanganyika waterways, which altogether amount tosomething like 1,200 miles of water transport, andbuild railways across the Shire rapids (120 miles)and Stevenson Road (240 miles). This would penetrate to the north end ofTangan
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