THE KINGDOM OF UGANDA 



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itself, with an ascent or descent so steep as often not to be compassed 

 on horseback. In between these hills or mounds there are bottoms of 

 marsh, or there are marshy streams which slowly percolate through dense 

 vegetation. Much of this, however, should be written in the past tense, 



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for a good deal lias been done l)y tlie civil and military ofhcials stationed 

 in the place to drain marshes, level roads, plant trees, and curb unnecessary 

 herbage, so that the place is probably much tidier to look at and much 

 easier to traverse than during my former visits there. 



Yet sections of the town inhabited by the little king and his court, 

 the native gentry, and the common people are clean and picturesque. 

 Keed fences of a kind peculiar to Uganda, which, by the interlacing reeds, 

 exhibit a bold pattern, enclose the ground on either side of the broad 

 red road. Behind these reed fences are numerous courtyards in which 



