Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



order soon located their enemy. I need only add 

 that one attack was sufficient. I shall in future 

 take every precaution to leave my friend the 

 " Asafue " to eat up the next new-comer. Their 

 bites are so acute that you are impelled to tear 

 off your clothes there and then and to rid yourself 

 of them as soon as you possibly can. I eventually 

 finished up at the Club, where I met many residents, 

 and from whose congenial society I found it difficult 

 to sever myself. 



I arrived back on the ship, and early the next 

 morning we steamed up a narrow inlet of the lake 

 to Port Kampala. I must own that whilst in port 

 the mosquitoes had become unbearable, and I got 

 very little sleep indeed. Port Kampala is quite 

 new, and the natives were busy at work on the 

 jetty. The place was rampant with the sleeping- 

 sickness germ, although a part of the shore had 

 been cleared of the dangerous thick jungle which 

 harbours the pestilential fly, but it was difficult 

 and slow work. Uganda was just recovering" from 

 a bad dose of this disease, and the Government 

 were trying to eradicate it by clearing all the lake 

 shore of the native inhabitants, who used it to earn 

 a livelihood by fishing. I believe if a germ cannot 

 find an accommodating person to bite for a period of 

 forty-eight hours, it succumbs. The patient may be 

 infected for years, but he eventually wastes away 

 until he is but a mere trembling shadow and dies. 



I did not, however, remain very long here. The 

 rickshaw which I had previously ordered was waiting 



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