He
Made No Objection To My Taking His Photograph, But It
Unfortunately Turned Out A Failure.
It is curious to find the Baganda (i.e., people of
Uganda) highly civilised - the majority are Christians
- surrounded
As they are on all sides by nations of
practically naked savages; and it is a very interesting,
sight to watch them in the "bazaar" at Kampala, clad
in long flowing cotton garments, and busily engaged in
bartering the products of the country under the shade
of tattered umbrellas. Unfortunately the great scourge
of the district round the shores of the Lake is the
sleeping sickness, which in the past few years has
carried off thousands of the natives, and has quite
depopulated the islands, which were once densely
inhabited. The disease is communicated by the bite of
an infected fly, but happily this pest is only found in
certain well-defined regions, so that if the traveller
avoids these he is quite as safe, as regards sleeping
sickness, as if he had remained in England.
On the return journey from Entebbe, Jinja, a port on
the north side of the Victoria Nyanza, is usually called
at. This place is of great interest, as it is here that the
Lake narrows into a breadth of only a few hundred
yards, and, rushing over the Ripon Falls, forms the
long-sought-for source of the Nile. The magnificent
view of the mighty river stretching away to the north
amid enchanting scenery is most inspiring and one can
well imagine how elated Speke must have felt when
after enduring countless hardships, he at last looked
upon it and thus solved one of the great problems
the ancients.
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