Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



large green amphitheatre of grass which stretches 

 to the reeds bordering the lake, whence the view 

 extends to the Sesse Islands, "summer isles of 

 Eden, set in dark purple spheres of sea," as they 

 are so aptly described by Sir Harry Johnston, a 

 former Governor. 



The houses above mentioned are the residences 

 of the Government officials. There are some 

 excellent tennis courts, and a small club house 

 well placed in a central position near by. On 

 beyond, at the further lip of this green saucer, are 

 the Fort and the Roman Catholic Chapel. 



A beautiful scene, yet full of ravening wolves 

 within ! 



That fell disease, the "sleeping sickness," and 

 its harbinger, the dreaded tsetse fly — now, fortu- 

 nately, almost totally exterminated at Entebbe, 

 owinor to the clearino- of the forest land round the 

 shore of the lake — have decimated the popula- 

 tion here. Where are the little fairy fishing boats 

 that ought to dot the blue waters of this inland 

 sea, and thus complete its picture ? Fish there 

 are in plenty, but the fishermen have long since 

 died or disappeared owing to this deadly malady. 

 A large island which the steamer passes on the 

 starboard bow in the course of the voyage from 

 Port Florence to Entebbe used to boast a census 

 of some twenty thousand people, whereas now 

 its population numbers barely two hundred ! 



Behind the orderly rows of houses, pictur- 



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