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LAKE VICTORIA 

 TO KHARTOUM 



I 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER 



IN these pages, in order to avoid the con- 

 fusing use of the names of the different 

 districts into which the " Uganda Pro- 

 tectorate " is divided, I am going to apply 

 the name Uganda to the whole country from 

 Lake Victoria Nyanza, in the south, to Gon- 

 dokoro, the northernmost point joining up with 

 the Sudan. This will save the repetition of the 

 names of the various provinces, and conse- 

 quently the continual disturbing glances at a 

 map ; it will also enable the reader readily to 

 distinguish between Uganda and the Sudan — 

 the two countries with which I am dealing in 

 these travels. 



As regards the peculiar habitat of any par- 

 ticular species of game, I shall of course make 

 a distinction where necessary, mentioning the 

 various districts the animals are to be found in. 

 However, in order to give the stranger a very 



