CHAPTER XIII 



UGANDA, AiNU THE GREAT NYANZA LAKES 



When we left Nairobi, it was with real regret that we 

 said good-bye to the many friends who had l)een so kind 

 to us — officials, private citizens, almost everyone we had 

 met, including Sir Percy Girouard, the new Governor. 

 At Kijabe the men and women from the American 

 Mission^ — and the children, too — were down at the 

 station to wish us good luck ; and at Nakuru the 

 settlers from the neiglibourhood gathered on the plat- 

 form to give us a farewell cheer. The following morning 

 we reached Kisumu, on Lake \ictoria Nyanza. It is in 

 the Kavirondo country, wliere the natives, both men 

 and women, as a rule go absolutely naked, although 

 they are peaceable and industrious. In the native 

 market they had brought in baskets, iron spade-heads, 

 and food, to sell to the native and Indian traders who 

 had their booths round about ; the meat market, under 

 the trees, was especially interesting. 



At noon we embarked in a smart little steamer to 

 cross the lake. Twenty-four hours later we landed at 

 Entebbe, the seat of the English Governor of Uganda. 

 Throughout our passage the wind hardly ruffled the 

 smooth surface of the lake. As we steamed away from 

 the eastern shore the mountains behind us and on our 

 right hand rose harsh and barren, yet with a kind of 



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