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THE CENTRAL PROA^NCE 



Kukedi and Lobor probal)ly constitute at tlie present time the wildest 

 and least-known parts of the Uganda Protectorate. Lobor is only known 

 to us through the explorations of Colonel J. E. L. Macdonald's expedition, 

 though Bukedi is now under the administration of a Uganda chief, and 

 has been thoroughly subdued lately in connection with the rout and 

 dispersal by .Major Delme Eadcliffe of the last remnants of the Sudanese 

 mutineers who took refuge in this part of the Protectorate. 



In the southern part of Bukedi are those extraordinary marsh-lakes 

 Kwania, Kamoda, and Kioga (sometimes called Choga). Lake Kioga 

 receives the Victoria Nile after its descent down the rapids which follow 



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the Eipon Falls. The current of the Nile forms a discernible channel 

 up the western part of this winding lake, though the water is often 

 blocked with sudd. There is a good deal of clear water in the southern 

 and central parts of Lake Kioga, but the banks are almost unapproachable 

 through the growtli of papvrus and reed jungles. On those almost-islands 

 of Ewiro and Ivwara, nearly enclosed by the fjords and branches and 

 connecting channels of these lakes, there is dry ground covered with low 

 scrub, and occasionally rising into isolated hillocks. The country seems 

 to be extremely well adapted to native agriculture, and no doubt, owing 

 to the presence of these swamps, is less in dread of defective rainfall than 

 the stony regions to the north. This condition of constant swampiness — 



