Life and Scenery in Uganda 



forest, smashing the trees to matchwood while 

 selectinof their meal of twigrs and leaves. Were 

 the solitude not thus disturbed, it would be diffi- 

 cult for a person to believe that he is not the only 

 living thing in the countryside. 



Very different is the aspect of the country 

 north of Nimule on the road to Gondokoro; but 

 of this more anon ; " sufficient to the day — ! " 



The journey from East Africa across Lake 

 Victoria to Entebbe, the capital and seat of 

 Government of the Uganda Protectorate, is per- 

 formed in a steamer, a spick-and-span creation of 

 the Uganda Railway, admirably furnished with 

 every modern comfort, and so more like a glori- 

 fied yacht gliding over an azure sea to the Isles 

 of the Hesperides than a prosaic ferry-boat. 



To those on the steamer, Entebbe shows itself 

 as a little pier with sheds and customs-houses 

 dotted about at the water's edge, against a back- 

 ground of large, green, shady trees, festooned 

 with brilliant red-violet strands of bougainvillea. 

 Old Government House just peeps out from 

 amongst the foliage, and beyond everything rises 

 the hill whereon New Government House is 

 being built, with the Union Jack waving over- 

 head. 



A short walk up the white road hedged with 

 plumbago and hydrangea conducts us from the 

 pier to the little stone houses, each in its pretty 

 garden, picturesquely dotted on the slopes of a 



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