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itself, with an ascent or descent so steej) as often not to he coin])assed 

 on liorseliack. In hetween these hills or niouiuls there are hottotns of 

 marsh, or there are marshy streams which slowly percolate through dense 

 vegetation. ^luch of this, liowever, sliould t)e written in tlie past tense, 



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for a good deal has been done by the civil and military officials stationed 

 in the place to drain marshes, level roads, plant trees, and curb unnecessary 

 herbage, so that the place is jn-obably much tidier to look at and much 

 easier to traverse than during my former visits there. 



Yet sections of the town inhabited by the little king and his court, 

 the native gentry, and the common people are clean and picturesque. 

 Keed fences of a kind peculiar to Uganda, which, by the interlacing reeds, 

 exhibit a bold pattern, enclose the ground on either side of the broad 

 red road. Behind these reed fences are nuTiierous courtvards in which 



