Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



greatest delight in counting the amount over and 

 over again for sheer joy of doing so. In the 

 same way your headman will count your porters 

 incessantly, at odd moments during your "safari." 



The polished manners of the Baganda strike the 

 visitor at once, and one can only hope that under 

 the influence of civilization and education they will 

 not deteriorate in this respect, although already they 

 have learned that it is unnecessary to kneel down 

 until the white man has passed ; and the missionary 

 teaching, that all human beings are brothers, 

 irrespective of colour, is an undoubtedly dangerous 

 doctrine, putting them, as it does, on an equality 

 with their rulers. The illustration shows a Baganda 

 chief not above building his own hut with the 

 assistance of two of his servants, but observe the 

 cutaway coat in which the chief is dressed, 



Kampala to-day presents a very different ap- 

 pearance to what it did only a few years back, when 

 it was described as a gigantic banana grove. Ex- 

 cellent roads have been laid out, and stone houses 

 are being built everywhere. The local shops are 

 doing a good business, and more traders are 

 arriving constantly as the inhabitants are becoming 

 richer, and, of course, the greater their civilization, 

 the greater their requirements. 



A detachment of Indian troops is quartered here. 

 The market-place is a busy centre, and a casual 

 onlooker would imagine that this was the principal 

 rendezvous for discussing the merits of their re- 

 spective goods rather than for the actual barter 



