BEAUTIFUL UGANDA 135 



between which run the wide and straight roadways. The whole place 

 is extraordinarily unlike what one would look for in an African king- 

 dom and very different from what is to be seen elsewhere in that con- 

 tinent. 



Kampala lies in the northwest section of Uganda, about twenty- 

 four miles north of Entebbe. The road between the English .and 

 native capitals is of firm, smooth sandstone, over which the officials 

 travel in automobiles, which have recently been introduced. The rick- 

 shaw, a bicycle-wheeled carriage, drawn by one man in the shafts 

 and pushed by three from behind, was formerly the ordinary mode of 

 travel, though the bicycle itself was much used and proved of great 

 utility in the narrow native paths. 



On page 129 it was stated that a fact existed that seriously 

 interfered with the happiness of the people of Uganda. This is the 

 outbreak of a terrible epidemic known as the sleeping sickness, intro- 

 duced into Uganda from the Congo Free State not many years ago, 

 and which has carried off many thousands of the people. The dis- 

 ease is due to a microbe which infects the tsetse fly and is trans- 

 mitted to man by its bite. So far it has proved incurable, the victim 

 gradually becoming emaciated and finally falling into a state of 

 unnatural sleep which ends only in death. Fortunately, this fly makes 

 its habitat in thickets near water, and by cutting down these thickets 

 and removing the people from the water side the transmission of the 

 disease may be prevented. This is being done, and if continued may 

 eventually eradicate this visitation of terror from beautiful Uganda. 



