The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-24
|MVANzA WILL BE
TRADING CENTRE
Town on Lake Victoria, With
Odd Population, Has Big
Business Future.
A NATION OF STOCK RAIsERs
Big Business Sending Hides. TO
America-How Trade Is,
Carried On.
. NATION OF STOCK RAIsERs
ny FRANK C. CARPENTER.
Special Correspondence OF The Times

Especial Correspondence OF The Tines
Dlspatch.l
Mwanza-
have left Bukoba and have come
to the extreme southern end OF Lake
Victoria. The distance was ninety
three miles, and our little steamer
was all day coasting the shores. We
and are now in a harbor surrounded
by graet hills and boulders of gran
The lower part Of Lake Victoria is
Spoke Gulf, which extends fifty miles
inland, and at my right is Emin Pasha
Bay. which was discovered by Stanley
and Emin atterSthey thought they had
between these is the estuary upon
which this town Of Mwanza is situat-
ed. It is the place where John Han
ming Spoke first saw Lake Victoria and
The first man to go clear around the
lake was Henry NJ. Stanley. who navi-
tives. !. = -.
B Stand with me on the steamship Win
lnifred and take a look at this town
OF Mwanza- II runs around a harbor.
which is OF the shape of a bow. and
Is we'll guarded by small rocky Islands.
The entrance Is SO narrow that we
seem to be in little lake shut off
from the great Victoria Nyanza. A
wooden pier has been built out Into
our steamer is lying. At the beginning
OF the pier is the custom house. q
shed walled and rooted with galvan-
lee ized iron; an and back Of i are the
port. in front Of which tall black SOL
ders In Khaki march up and down.
At the right Of the custom! house
are the low bungalows. with white
walls and red = roofs oo which form orr the
ernor. while at the left, high up on q
hill, Is the home Of the military COM
mandant, by far the best house in
II the PLACE. Between that and, the shore
back lofs behn % the G P 2or ano
ming for miles out into the country,
Is the native village OF Mwanza, with
Its Hindoo stores and thatohed huts.s
The village is cut up by wide streets
looks spick and span and new.
A Future Trading Centre. .8
Before I take you on shore let us
look at the scenes about the wharf. j
and the loading and unloading Of the
steamer. This will give some Idea OF,
the trade Of the region, and also Of.
What is going ons.aWay out, here IN
Unknown. tt was \ supposed to be an
impenetrable wilderness; It's people
We're in continual warfare and the, chief
business was the buying and selling
5fof slaves To-day we buy many Of
tttyes are wearing our cottons
Z See that great bale OF goods which
10 being taken off now. That contains
brings more and sells better than any
brought in from England. Germany or
India. al Though they al! compete with
down to the ship on tn 9 heads Of thai
sang Of NATIVES are destined to be
American factories and even now
many Of YOU have Lake Victoria cow-
skins under your feet. We formerly
got our best sgoatskins from the Sos
mali oast. and they were Skinned from
Alden. Arabia. q
Then one Of the Uganda OFFICIALS,
who had been onGdGty in British So-s
maitland, decided that the goat
from there m ght be sent to America
and SO an immense trade In thatspro-s
duct has grown up nor Of the ,lak Ike,
II has q tended down ~ ere Ito the
south, and some OF our finest skins3
now ZONE from this region. This ISL