AND THE NILE 



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so smooth that the hills at a distance look as though they were covered 

 with close yellow-green turf. Nearer to the frontier of Uganda the country 

 is more wooded, but is equally beautiful, large areas of the down-land 

 in and out of the pretty copses and graceful shade-trees being over- 

 grown with a species of Emilia,^^ which produces innumerable small blossoms 

 like those of the groundsel in shape, of mauve with a stalk of red. Some 

 of these hillsides are alternately mauve and green (when grass predominates), 

 with bright notes of sul})hur-yellow where a handsome yellow thistle 

 rears its head among the mauve Emilias. Eastern Toro is very like 

 Uganda in its character of alternate hill and swamp. You come to no 

 running water until you reach the Eiver Mpanga, within a day's march 

 of Kuwenzori. 



Unyoro is a country now of considerably restricted area. Geographically, 

 and bounded in accordance with race and language, Unyoro really extends 

 over the northern Districts of Uganda and Toro, but since the conclusion 

 of the wars waged with 

 the ex-king of Unyoro, 

 the southern parts of 

 that kingdom have been 

 handed over to Uganda 

 and Toro. The east- 

 ern i)art of Unyoro is 

 swampy in the stream 

 valleys, and a little in- 

 clined to be harsh and 

 sterile away from the 

 watercourses. There is, 

 however, fine scenery 

 along the Victoria Nile 

 from its confluence with 

 the Kafu to its descent 

 into Lake Albert Nyanza. 

 Especially notable are 

 the Karuma Falls, where 

 the river is compressed 

 into an extraordinarily 

 narrow space. Down the 

 centre of Unyoro, run- 

 ning from north-east to 

 south-west almost parallel 



* Probably E. inte<iri folia. 113- o\ the bank^ 



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