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Show Depopulated by Sleeping Btckneu. Fnjao as a nativo town was no moro. At hardly nny point In Uganda has tho sleeping sickness mado such frightful ruvages. At least 0,000 persons per-sons had perished In tho last two years, Almost tho wholo population had beon swept away. Scarcoly enough remained to form tho deputation, who in tholr whlto robes could bo dlsccrnod at tho on. trance to the cleared area of tho camping ground. And this cleared area was Itsolf of tho utmost Importanco, Impor-tanco, for nil around It tho powers of jgyJI were strong. Tho groves which fringed n7i oVoihuirtr rlnr rhrr-BWarmed rhrr-BWarmed with tsotso files of nowly ro-plonlshed ro-plonlshed venom and approved malignity, ma-lignity, and no man could entor them except at a risk. Winston Churchill in Strand Magazine |