PllEFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii 



sought inforiiiatiou frum others who had visited places and countries 

 I (hd not reach. Therefore this book is in many ways similar to 

 the work whicli T ])iil)lished on British Central Africa in 181)7. In 

 that, as ill tliis. I have to acknowledge with gratitude the help 

 and co-o})eration of many friends and colleagues who have placed 

 their stores of information at my disposal. 



Amongst these names I should select for special mention Mr. 

 C. AV. Hobley, Mr. J. F. Cunningham. Mr. George Wilson. C.B.. 

 Mr. AV. Grant, C.M.G., Major C. Delme Radcliffe, Mr. F. J. .Jackson, 

 C.B., Mr. Alexander AVhj-te, Lieutenant Mundy. Lieutenant-Colonel 

 J. Evatt. D.S.O., Major Gorges, Dr. Henry Bodeker, Colonel A. II. 

 Coles, D.S.O., Mr. Harold Baker, Mr. F. AY. Isaac, Captain A\\ 

 Eumbold, Mr. J. Foaker, Mr. S. S. Bagge, Dr. R. U. Moffat, C.M.G.. 

 Mr. F. Spire, Mr. C. AV. Fowler, C.M.G., R.N., Mr. F. Pordage. :SLv. 

 James Martin, Mr. E. Racey, and the late Major Sitwell and Air. R. 

 Baile. I also have to acknowledge the receipt of much interesting 

 and detailed information at different times from the Right Rev. 

 Alfred Tucker, Bishop of Uganda : Alonseigneur Henri Streicher. 

 Apostolic A'^icar of the Victoria Nyanza ; and the Right Rev. Henrv 

 Hanlon, Apostolic A^icar of the Upper Nile ; from the Rev. A. B. Fisher, 

 the Rev. H. Aladocks, and the Rev. G. Baskerville, of the Church 

 Missionary Society. It is with })leasure also that I note mv 

 indebtedness for much interesting information about native customs, 

 history, and languages, to Apolo Kagwa and Paul Mukwenda. 

 highly placed native officials in the Kingdom of Uganda : to Josia 

 Majoje, Government interpreter, and to Kasagama, king of Toro, 

 and his excellent minister, the Kimbugwe. 



I have also to thank that accomplished traveller and si:)ortsman. 

 Mr. Edward North Buxton, for his kindness in placing at my disposal 

 his magnificent collection of ])hotographs taken along the banks of 

 the Upper Nile. I have not been able to utilise these in this book 

 as fully as I should have liked (having regard to their arti.stic value ), 

 because most of the scenes and animals they illustrate lay beyond 

 the }u-ovince of this Protectorate, but such as I have used ai-e a 

 valuable addition to the liook. 



Air. Ernest Gedge has very kindly lent me four of his photogra})hs 

 illustrating: the summit and interior of the crater of Alount Elaon. 



