| Show fI THE UGANDA v r J JL JL NJ JK f JL Jt I lV Q w I 13 I II I I HOW JOHN BULL SUCCESSFULLY GOVERNS FOUR FOUP MILLIONS OF AFRICAN NATIVES Uganda as a the Cream ot of ottlie the th Black Bla k Continent G Its Enormous Extent and Its Many Man Odd Peoples I Mount Elgon and Its Cave Dwellers The Pigmies ot of the West The Th Kings African Rifles A Glance G lance at atthe Entebbe the British Capital Talks with the ih Officials How They Th Govern Through the Chiefs Etc Etc n i sent int with mo moin moun morn E in un tho Iho mud veranda of oC tho mud mUI hotel at nL and look out owr or JAllo L kc 1 tell you oIl tit or this Uganda tonito which llin have recently r I milled 1 to I ot oC the white mans mansI I burden You bet ip your hats hatson hatson on There Thero urt mid scorpions scorpion In ho the tho roof roo overhaul ami 1 Bomo I may tall full down upon us mu aa n a M vt talk I ro you also to tie your shoes tight and by h no rie ns to rest your feet Coet on Ul the tho floor llon It Is II I true irue It la li plastered with sith cow ow dun mid and that ought to 10 keep out the tho ants stud and the DIP JIgger rho The lat latter ter tj Insect however have a WILy way WIL oC or orI O crawling I rl In Ic under ones llio to too toc luLlis mid laying little of I eg In tho the skin which If It they th hatch may inn Mill tims us II the tho loss ot of our toes t T I havo had 10 1 Jiggers taken nut out of nf my m foot feet I came Into IMd Uganda mid now no nty my m i goes goca m over or my Ill toed toe evory OY OVIt morn mornIng mornIng Ing ln Do 10 you F V c that block band I tho the path down ih h r in front I It Is II made up lip of a which will sill at attack attack I tack you If you ou come near nelu It They aro are the tho famous warrior lintS foIs foels Ilko re and whose hoMe M to 10 bo 10 b torn from thIr hodl before toro thy let go Q They nr III fur mr nion 1111 roll that baby bah lion 11 Im who wlm In III I lUl IcI t with n R about his hid neck lo to II a rt 1 eni h H IT 1st i oni but is us lug an u U II i elite collie nini It IM mint HIt obi olti hi enough to know how hI hr hIItt i Hr Itt 11 brought In last by hy n tl from I IH nyika who HiM nl o owns the th to gray parrots with red Jt 1 who vho in III the Ihl treo tree it tt arc lI al I ul y whistling hug mid a ud I ON O 1111 l wo o e begin our talk let I l ui tn look amid anil try to hr wo we are arc ThIM IhlO mud hotel H Is l tu IIII l II 11 I I In is situated led on the und tind by h out our l If Ies pi we ws e could nl ul mOlt moil Hu the thc paine came N l O wo wc e nn 1111 about 1000 feet re t above tho the selL sen th tite t cool from Victoria Victorin lake male make mIlks the Ih ti air n delightful an au Vir Virginia ginia ginta In lutr lun There Th re MM are und and lemoni lernon glowing i ott it there thel In tho the gar gI garden tell den TeL great boils beds of or t feathery I tp rul are arn to 10 and antI fro on the shores hores mid and we WI can 11 Me we trill tail j 1 1011 with their whis whispering pring perin lenos everywhere o Ij art aro right on nn the edge etlo Igo of ot Vie iii X about as 18 far Inland 1 M liS n shor i ot of Lake Erie nrc arc lu in from roam Now York and right In III tho the h l rt of the tho continent That luke hike was wn not known to 10 the world until about 50 years y ago ugo II ind wd today to a II largo hargo i part ait of ot till the tillIn thein In mis III It ati unexplored Tho The equator ROOM goes gt H right through the hike and 1111 1 It Is IR only about CO 60 miles south of It that tIt begin pa tat part it of oC Lake Victoria belon lo to t Britain and nil alt the vast territory extending from bore bere to the thc Uganda tho the Sudan tutu E Is IH practically under the con Comm trot of John Johll null Hull He has ha every toot tool of lurid bind on Inch each Id which he be begins gums gins 11 II I UK Its by h flowing out of ot I Lake ake Victoria nt mit Ripen FahIe not n far from he 1111 1 winds lt It tIM way WilY for Cor miles mile before It 11 empties Into tho the Mediterranean ean nr 1400 a As AB the tho crow lieu lien tho the lila die distance tance Is further farther than from Cram Philadelphia to the Salt SaIL Lake and lilli the country contains nomo of ot tho richest lands lunda up upon upon upon on earth rth Every very one knows known l of ot the wealth I alth ot of B pl which ha has now never been boel NO Mi o rich lih an LS a since the British took tock hold Time The MI Sudan hits vast territories equally fertile anti and away down don here at atthe time the lIP Niles Nhi source among the highest ot of the African mountains Is III In some somo I Imo rv vu richer than nil alt UGA DA l HOO Indeed this Ih English tell loll mo me that Uganda Is the cream ot of the tIme African CUll can continent I 1 have now boon lioon l l on log Ing some weeks through It and J I be bo bolI beIto lI Ito o are Ire right There thore Is 18 no other oilier place to St many crow crops roP con calm conlie lie h grown In somo of tro tW provinces tho the raise with practically no cultivation In It othor grows grow wild and everywhere there are arc bananas 1 I and other fruits In another letter l It r I 1 shall halh wrIte of ot the U lii creat roi O In cotton IK is ull y bo le 0 In mined hell h Emil and t I there elt and shall treat ot of time the stock growing ProsPects to lo main Uganda tho the great nl nl market mork t of oC Ingland The Tho ho N k I one lute of or grout as nil aswell well veil nH nM of or rich Itch plains covered with gra grai It IK Is I a it land of or and It has vast In 11 fIbers libers which may bo bolwell iwed lwell for fa I Urn time making ot of paper rope rop Iloth cioth I have already spoken sl 01 ln of oC the tIme bark blankets which arc uro used by b a n million or oi more of oC the tIme natives as 11 drons II es cc but inn I T have mild nothing of ot the tho thoI I hlll 1 which Is la brought horv hm to toI I nl hh t to hN hNIt It brings a nil as high aa nit II 1511 a fL ton This TIde country can eRn wise raise hemp as at good gOOl as mis that produced In the tho Philippines J and auth China and sisal ur are wild to thrive equally well veli The Is li rich In minerals Hematite ore lire is II I found almost everywhere copier has hILI l I un discovered III In the Ihl th central province vince und timid gold told Is sold said 11 1 to t lu III some seine places There are else also deposits of oC white china clay of great value III In certain and nimit the th na natives lives tives themselves malo unlike pottery from front It II I I UGANDA AS AI TUB rILE SUN sex IT lr But HUl 10 o take tako a Il look loot at nt as its time the sun slum sees It The Tho country lies lieson on II thu tho roof of ot the African A continent Where It bord rs Lake Lako Victoria It li Is lial al about mt as 1111 high up in mu th the Iha air ull a 1111 the Ume highest of the s mid antI the tho cra crater tel ter of itt r Mount which rises In tho the fL a i little north of that lake 1 IsO l tIme till sky ICO teo rt higher than the top of Pikes peak Away oft off to tIme tho east are Kilimanjaro and Kenia end at I tIll the west Cst are 1110 1111 th mighty highlands of ot which vie with those thusn of Kilimanjaro itself Tho coun country countr try tr Is IH almost surrounded by water vater On th south Is Lake LallI Victoria on the tho west ost are Albert mid and Albert AnI Nyanza Joined by b the tho further down dowum Is tho ho Nile On the cast east Is II I iku an 1111 enormous hotly body bOl of oC water and throughout the Iho whole country are bamm little ponds rivers and creeks Time The Ih general nature of the thc country is rolling It 11 huts has many mI hills hill multi and II 11 I I and undulating plains with swamp In the valleys The fhe hills are nrc coveted with grass unit and I they timey the roll 1011 ovum one cue an nn another other UH all fur far as tie the eye can calm see e Tho The swamps mile aie often spotted with woods and OttO one Is Itt never fleer out of oC it sight Might of tho the time the tall tail grass of ot which the thu Egyptians Eg made paper As lo to the time extent of the thu protectorate It contains altogether more mor land hand than New England J added to In New eW York Pennsylvania Now New Jersey Delaware D Maryland and Virginia It tt has hns a II big bigger ger ter population than thun New Nets England and bigger than that of or any nl state slate of or our with the time exceptions of New Nev NewYork York Pennsylvania Ohio or ni The rho people all ull told number between and and of these con h X I I V t i r i I 1 p 4 i i I Nfl OF or lUNGS nUIJI s over arc nrc Christians These are aro time tho In who whose o country I 1 now new urn ton FIVE IVO S Tho Time British have haye divided up UI this ter territory territory territory Into five provinces Originally they thoy made six si Ix but within with III the Iho last year or 01 so they have hao taken off ort the Iho lands ly ing lag east of tho tilt lake bike and given theta them to lo British East Africa That province the tho naked of whom I 1 havo already written It Is by lIy the tho Uganda railway which ter terminates on oil the time lake Inko at Port Tho live Ilvo provinces of Uganda consist of time the kingdom of oC Uganda the time central to 10 the tho th east e lt of or It II till the western province lying between It end and Lakes Lalos Albert E and Albort and time the and amid Nile provinces at lit the tho north Time The central province which Is I al nl almost most mot directly north of Victoria Nyanza Is I fertile to it an nil extreme It borders on 01 the time country and amid un many of oC Its go o naked It Jt Is densely populated ed and Its lis people raise cattle cuttle sheep timid and goats oats They also do considerable farming One of ot the tho most character characteristic features of this province Is III Mount gison which ranks as one omme of ot tho the high |
