IN ANKOI.E 



CHAPTER IV 



THE JFESTEBN FBOVINCE AND THE NILE 



THP] Western Province contains the Districts of Ankole and Toro, the 

 little territory of ^Nlboga, to the north of the Semliki River, and 

 the District of I nyoro, to which is also attached at present the west coast 

 of Lake Albert Nyanza. 



Ankole is for the most part a parallel (though on a lower level) to 

 the Nandi Plateau in the same latitudes on the east of the Victoria 

 Nyanza. It consists princi])ally of a lofty hut somewhat broken tableland 

 4,500 to 6,000 feet in altitude, rising in many places, however, to 

 mountain ranges and masses of 8,000 feet or more in altitude. In fact, 

 here and there the heights of Ankole assume in their vegetation that 

 Alpine character met with on the other high mountains of the Protectorate 

 above 8,000 feet in height. A portion of Western Ankole which borders 

 the east coast of Lake Albert Edward is covered with dense tropical forest^ 



