60 ( No. 98 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS fit for motor traffic at mostseasons of the year there are approximately 800 miles in the East Africa Protectorate.

In Uganda the main roads again are intimately con nected with the railway. Designed to bring the pro duce of the country districts and of the Belgian Congo across to Victoria Nyanza, and thence to the railway, the chief routes and best roads radiate from Kampala south-west to Mbarara , west to Fort Portal and the Ruwenzori region , north -west to Hoima and Butiaba , and east to Jinja. Another important trade route is the motorroad from Port Masindi , extended recently almost to Butiaba, and serving to connect Lake Albert andthe Nile Basin with Lakes Kioga and Victoria.

There are now in Uganda 400 miles of good motor roads, about 800 miles suitable for light motor traffic in dry weather, and a very large mileage of cleared tracks forming minor channels of communication all over the country (6) Waterways The navigable waterways of Uganda, like the road system , serve to feed the railway. While most of the lakes and rivers of the Protectorate offer small facilities for trading , there are two notable exceptions. The Nile is navigable from Nimule southward to Lake Albert, and thence eastward to Fajao ; across the lake and along the Nile a traffic, to which the war has given an impetus, is carried on by the small vessels of the Albert flotilla . Further south , between Port Masindi and Namasagali, there occurs a second navigable section , where the Nile expands in its course and forms two lakes , Kwania and Kioga. From the many widespread branches of these lakes a considerable and rapidly in creasing volume of cotton and other native products is brought to the head of the Busoga Railway by the three sternwheelers of the Kioga fiotilla. The river traffic of the Nile, however, is dwarfed by comparison with the work of the Lake Victoria Marine , which transmits to and from the Uganda Railway terminus at Kisumu