UHLAND 



that of Nevada. Of this area, 16377 square 

 miles are water, for within the boundaries of 

 the protectorate lie portions of Victoria Ny- 

 anza, Lake Albert, Lake Edward and Lake 

 Rudolph, and all of lakes George, Kioga and 

 Salisbury. E x - 

 cept in the vi- 

 cinity of Lake 

 Rudolf, the soil i.s 

 . generally fertile 

 and produces a 

 variety of tropical 

 products. Cotton 

 is the principal 

 crop, and the an- 

 nual yield is 

 steadily increas- 

 ing. Other prod- 

 ucts of commer- 



LOCATION MAP 





cial value are ground nuts, coffee, ivory, rubber, 

 hides and skins, and experiments are being 

 made in the production of arrowroot, cocoa, 

 tea, wheat and tobacco. In normal years 

 Uganda carries on an active trade with Great 

 Britain, the United States, British India and 

 the Belgian Congo. The chief exports include 

 goatskins, hides, coffee and cotton. 



Entebbe is the British headquarters and seat 

 of government, but Mengo is the native capital. 

 Native kings and chiefs are permitted to con- 

 duct the government of their own subjects. 

 The protectorate has the advantage of steam- 

 boat, railway and telegraph service. In 1915 

 the population was estimated to be 2,927,494. 

 The majority of the inhabitants are natives, 

 and of these about 600,000 belong to the Ba- 

 ganda race, an intelligent people who have re- 

 sponded to the efforts of missionaries and are 

 now almost all Christian. 



UHLAND, oo'lahnt, JOHANN LUDWIG (1787- 

 1862), a poet and philologist, bora at Tubingen, 

 Germany. He studied law in the university of 

 that city, and practiced the profession for a 

 a Stuttgart, Germany, but the fascination 

 of the study of languages and literature was so 

 great that he gradually gave up his work as a 

 or. He had begun to write poetry at lin- 

 age of thirteen, and by his twenty-eighth year 

 had gained fame through his fervid, patriotic 

 songs and ballads. His Fatherland Poems were 

 so enthusiastically received that the grateful 



ns of Wurttemberg elected him to ? 

 provincial assembly, where he showed marked 

 political ability. 



From 1829 to 1833 he waa professor of Gor- 

 man literature at the University of Tubing n. 



UKRAINE 



and again displayed his many-sided genius by 

 profound studies in mythology and philology. 

 After 1850 he retired from all public activities 

 and gave the last twelve years of his life to 

 study and writing. As a writer of songs and 

 ballads he ranks with the greatest of all time. 

 He caught the simplicity and spirit of the old 

 folk songs which he had studied so lovingly, 

 :md wrote similar ones which charmed not only 

 Germany but all other European countries and 

 America. 



UHLANS, oo'lahm, a name given to certain 

 bodies of mounted lancers, especially in Eastern 

 Europe. In the countries where they were 

 originally known, the Uhlans were accustomed 

 to wear a sort of semi-Oriental costume with 

 loose, flowing sleeves and baggy trousers. In 

 addition to the lance, they carried a curved 

 scimitar. A corps of Uhlans was temporarily 

 established in the French army under Marshal 

 Saxe. The term became quite familiar to West- 

 ern peoples after the outbreak of the War of 

 the Nations by the prowess of the Prussian 

 light cavalry troops, who bore the name. They 

 had long been among the best cavalry in the 

 world, and carried spears in addition to more 

 modem arms. See CAVALRY. 



UINTA, or UINTAH, uin'ta, MOUNTAINS, 

 a lofty range of the Rocky Mountains system, 

 jutting out at right angles to the Wasatch 

 Mountains and covering a large part of North- 

 eastern Utah. The Green River has cut a tre- 

 mendous gorge across the range, disclosing tome 

 of the coal-bearing rocks which underlie the 

 surface. Gilbert Peak, rising 13,687 feet above 

 sea level, which is the highest point in the 

 state, is in this range; others are Emmont 

 Peak (13,624 feet) and Wilson Peak (13300 

 feet). See UTAH. 



UKRAINE, u'A-rai/n. When the Russian bol- 

 sheviki ("red") government (see RUSSIA) early 

 in 1918 declared for "self-determination of peo- 

 ples" the people of the Russian Black Sea prov- 

 inces, in the region known at the Ukraine, 

 declared their independence and proclaimed the 

 Ukraine republic, with Kiev as the capital. The 

 word Ukraine meant borderland. 



: .-i of this now country is about as great 

 as that of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and 

 Michigan, but Ukraine, in the world crisis of 

 ( li.it year, meant something more than site. It 

 occupies the best pert of the famed Black Earth 

 Belt, the "granary of Rutsia" (tee page 51 1: 

 The new republic met reverses at the outset, 

 for German armies, ignoring peace terms and 

 wishes of the Ukrainians, took measures to 



