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THE EASTERN PROVINCE 



so still a source of goguenard amusement to the excursionists whom the 

 Uo-anda Railway will brinff from the east coast of Africa to the Victoria 

 JSyanza ; for they will see before them coal-black, handsomely formed 

 ne<Troes and negresses without a shred of clothing, though with many 

 adornments in the way of hippopotamus teeth, bead necklaces, ear-rings, 

 and leglets of brass. As the tigures thus exhibited are usually models for 

 a sculptor, this nudity is blameless and not to be discouraged ; moreover, 

 it characterises the most moral people in the Uganda Protectorate. This 



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28. MOV. NT L(J.MilAM, NANDI PLATEAU (8,000 FEFT 



ebon statuary lives in pretty little villnges, which are clusters of straw 

 huts (glistening gold in the sun's rays), encircled with fences of aloes, 

 which have red, green, and white mottled leaves, and beautiful columns 

 and clusters of coral-red stalks and flowers. There are a few shady trees, 

 that from their a[)pearance might very well be elms (but are not), and 

 some extraordinary euphorbias, which grow upright with the trunk of a 

 respectable tree, and burst into uncounted sickly green spidery branches. 

 Herds of parti-coloured goats and sheep, and cattle that are black and 



