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with millions of mosquitoes. Indeed, Uganda as a comitry has one fault 

 in that there is scarcely a part of it without mosquitoes, and these sometimes 

 belong to the fexer-dealing species Anopheles. Much of Uganda was once 

 unbroken tropical forest, and even at the present day there remains in 

 Kiagwe, the easternmost district of the province, a dense forest of con- 

 siderable extent, the recesses of which have never been explored by a 

 European. In this forest, until quite recently, chimpanzees were found, 

 and the inhabitants seem to have been originally of the Congo Pvgmy 

 type. 



Few people of any imagination or sense of the beautiful and stupendous 

 can fail to be impressed by tropical forests such as those of Brazil or of parts 

 ■of Western and Central Africa. These forests have little of the tender 

 grace of an English beechwood, nor do they ever convey that exhilaration 



7^. FOREST BY THE SHORES OF THE VKTOKIA NYAN/.A 



of the pines. Amazingly beautiful they may be in patches and c-lumps, 

 but more often than not their grandeur and beauty is condoned with a 



