Angelo-Egyptian] GENERAL REMARKS 163 a which would, moreover , develop the great cotton areas of the Bahr el-Ghazal and tap a vast supply of mahogany, is that via El Odaiya, in Kordofan, to Kafia -Kengi, and along the Nile-Congo watershed to Rejaf and Lake Albert. The first section of this railway would bepart of the proposed extension of the Kordofan line to El Fasher, and it is worth noting that this El Fasher extension is in the direction of Lake Chad, which the Kano railway in Northern Nigeria is approaching If trans-continental connection between these two lines were made across French Wadai, the West African colonies would be brought within a few days' journey of Egypt .

It is doubtful if any other region of the world con tainsgreater potential water-power than doesthat part of Africa along which the Cape -to -Cairo railwayand air routes must run ,and it is probable that most of the railways, both built and projected , in the Anglo Egyptian Sudan could be electrified without any great difficulty.

The quickest route for sportsmen and tourists on their way to Equatorial Africa is via the Sudan , and it is probable that under normal conditions Khartum may become as much a tourist centre for the Sudan as Cairo is for Egypt. There does not appear to be any danger of tribal uprisings or other political trouble on any part of the western or south -western frontiers ; but some apprehension has been felt as to the possibility of sleeping-sickness gaining a footing in the Bahr el-Ghazal and in part of the Mongalla province west of the Nile . This disease is prevalent in the UpperWelle district of the Congo, and the Upper Mbomu in the French Ubanghi-Shari, but along the parts of the frontier which are opposite those districts measures are taken to prevent the natives crossing to or from the Sudan .

In spite of the present peaceful conditions of the Sudan, the possibility of trouble arising on the borders of Abyssinia is ever present, owing to the incessant and unrestrained traffic in arms and ammunition with the