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of the Company werd never purely commercial, (little
profit was in fact made), and economic motives were
inextricably tangled dth a wish to help ntoeion; to
diffuoo Pritioh civilizations to abolich the altere trades
and a desire for Imperialist expansion. In 18901 partly
at the suggestion of the Governments the Company extended
thoir activities inland from the coast to Uganda,. in
spite of financial diffionltiea.
(1)
The Company seems
to have favoured Imperial, expansion for its own sake an
much ec for the rather doubtful commercial gains'*
In 1890 they cent Lugard to Uganda as the leader
of an expedition which quickly became involved in a three
cornered struggle between the British Church flicsionury
Society$ the French Catholic kliscion And the Iohumaedan
party. Not surprisingly the Protestant miocionarioe
emerged as the dominant group.
But the expansion from the coast to Uganda put
too xroat a strain on the resources of the Company which
was rapidly running out of funds and wau forced to contemplate
(1) Mario de Kiewit# Op cit.