PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii 



souglit information from others who had visited phxces and countries 

 I did not reach. Therefore this book is in many ways similar to 

 the work whicli I pubhshed on British Central Africa in 1897. In 

 that, as in this, I have to acknowledge with gratitude the help 

 and co-operation of many friends and colleagues who have placed 

 their stores of information at my disposal. 



Amongst these names I should select for special mention Mr. 

 C. AV. Hobley, Mr. J. F. Cunningham, Mr. George Wilson, C.B., 

 Mr. W. Grant, C.M.G., Major C. Delme Radcliffe, Mr. F. J. Jackson' 

 C.B., Mr. Alexander AVhyte, Lieutenant Mundy, Lieutenant-Colonel 

 J. Evatt, D.S.O., Major Gorges, Dr. Henry Bodeker, Colonel A. H. 

 Coles, D.S.O., Mr. Harold Baker, Mr. F. W. Isaac, Captain AV. 

 Rumbold, Mr. J. Foaker, Mr. S. S. Bagge, Dr. R. U. Moffat, C.M.G., 

 Mr. F. Spire, Mr. C. AV. Fowler, C.M.G., R.N., Mr. F. Pordage, Mr. 

 James Martin, Mr. R. Racey, and the late Major Sitwell and Mr. R. 

 Bade. I also have to acknowledge the receipt of much interestino- 

 and detailed information at different times from the Right Rev. 

 Alfred Tucker, Bishop of Uganda : Monseigneur Henri Streicher, 

 Apostolic A^icar of the A^'ictoria Nyanza ; and the Right Rev. Henry 

 Hanlon, Apostolic Vicar of the Upper Nile : from the Rev. A. B. Fisher, 

 the Rev. H. Madocks, and the Rev. G. Baskerville, of the Church 

 Missionary Society. It is with pleasure also that I note my 

 indebtedness for much interesting information about native customs 

 history, and languages, to Apolo Kagwa and Paul Mukwenda, 

 highly placed native officials in the Kingdom of Uganda : to Josia 

 Majoje, Government interpreter, and to Kasagama, king of Toi-o, 

 and his excellent minister, the Kimbugwe. 



I have also to thank that accomplished traveller and sportsman, 

 Mr. Edward North Buxton, for his kindness in placing at my dis])osal 

 his magnificent collection of photographs taken along the banks of 

 the Upper Nile. I have not been able to utilise these in this book 

 as fully as I should have liked (having regard to their artistic value), 

 because most of the scenes and animals they illustrate lay beyond 

 the province of this Protectorate, but such as I have used ai-e a 

 valuable addition to the book. 



Mr. Ernest Gedge has very kindly lent me four of his photographs 

 illustrating the summit and interior of the crater of Mount Elgon. 



