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never comes, and he especially admired the charming outlook from the 

 Government House, with its smooth, green lawn, the beautiful trees 

 which shaded it, the gleaming face of the sun-kissed lake in the near 

 distance and the stately setting of the purple hills afar. And this in 

 a clime which, with its soft, cool air, seemed to belong to summer 

 lands far removed from the region of the equator. 



After a brief stay in Entebbe as the guest of the Governor of 

 Uganda, he set out on a motor trip to the Uganda capital. No one 

 could follow the high road from Entebbe to Kampala without feeling 

 himself in a bath of beauty, in which the pervading green was enlivened 

 by blooms of all the colors of the rainbow and in the rich soil of which 

 grew every variety of tropical fruits, with others introduced from the 

 temperate zone and familiar to their new visitor. 



The American visitors viewed Kampala with the same enthusiastic 

 approval with which they had greeted all the Uganda scenes. As for 

 the city itself, one scarcely discovers it even when in its center, the 

 huts of the natives being so environed with clustering banana trees as 

 to be scarcely visible. But beyond this sea of leaves rise the several 

 hills on the slopes of which much of the city lies, one showing on its 

 summit the king's palace, a second the buildings of the English resident 

 officials, a third crowned with the Christian churches, etc. We do not 

 know if Roosevelt ejaculated "Bully for you !" on observing the scene 

 spread before him, but if he did it would have been characteristic. 



Colonel Roosevelt had not sought King Dandi's capital as a haven 

 of rest. He has the faculty of never resting while there is anything 

 that seems to him worth doing or worth learning, and the account 

 above given of one day's activity of his stay in that city will show that 

 he did not come there with the hope of basking in inglorious ease. To 

 up and be doing is his native motto and one which he rarely foregoes. ' 



In the six or seven weeks of his projected stay in Uganda he did 

 not propose that time should hang heavy on his hands. His months 

 of hunting in British East Africa had not surfeited him. Uganda 

 had its animals also, its broad domains over which wild beasts wander 

 in multitudes, and there was always the possibility of bringing down 

 some species new to his career, possibly of finding some animal new 

 to science, a mate for the okapi found a few years before in the section 

 of Africa in which he now was. 



