THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE 



CHAPTER I 



THE EASTERN FROVINCE AND THE 

 BIWOLF BASIN 



IT may be well to commence this book with an attem[)t to give in words 

 and pictures some idea of the general aspect of the Protectorate, 

 taking its provinces in turn, and illustrating either their more remarkable 

 features or a generalised summary of their normal landscapes ; and into 

 this description to introduce, of course, the human types, animals, or 

 vegetation characteristic of the scene. 



This cursory survey of the lands which were grouped under the Uganda 

 Administration shall commence with the Eastern Province* ; touch lightly 

 on the less known countries grouped together in the Provinces of Rudolf 

 and the Nile ; portray some of the features of the Central Province and 

 of the better-known Kingdom of Uganda ; then take the reader into the 

 Western Province that skirts the Congo Free State and includes Mount 

 Kuwenzori ; and close with a brief description of that wonderful Congo 

 Forest which stretches almost uninterruptedly in some directions from the 

 west coast of Africa and the Eiver Benue to the portals of the Uganda 

 Protectorate. 



The Eastern Province is divided into the districts of Man, Piaringo, 

 8uk, and Nandi. Its human inhabitants mainly belong to the fine, liand- 

 some Masai race and the peoples of Nandi and Suk stock (closely allied 

 in racial origin to the Masai), while in the coast regions bordering the 

 Victoria Nyanza there are a few Nilotic and Bantu Negroes. Amongst 

 the dense forests, the game-haunted wildernesses, and unfrequented plateaux, 

 wanders a mongrel nomad race, the Audorobo, who represent a mixture of 

 Nandi, Masai, and some antecedent negro race of dwarfish, Bushman 

 stock. These Andorobo reproduce in a most striking manner the life 

 which we may suppose to have been led ]\v our lar-away ancestors or 

 predecessors in the earliest Stone Ages. They live entirely by the chase, 

 often consuming the flesh of birds and beasts uncooked. Though they 



* Now transferred to the Administration of the East xVfrica Protectorate. 

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