Sporting Licences 



and sale. Native women grinding corn for the 

 market are depicted in the illustration. The local 

 museum is only at present in its infancy, but 

 nevertheless attracts a large number of native 

 visitors, who evince a keen interest in the exhibits 

 of domestic utensils, curios, etc., collected from 

 the various parts of the Protectorate. The fact 

 that out of a sum of ^466 no less than ;!^200 

 was subscribed by the chiefs and people for the 

 new museum building, which is situated in the old 

 Kampala Fort, on the top of Kampala Hill, speaks 

 well of their general interest in local affairs. 



After a few days spent in the purchase of stores 

 and necessaries I started for Bombo, the head- 

 quarters of the King's African Rifles, though not 

 before I had obtained from the Commissioner a 

 special licence, the fee for which was ;^io for a 

 public officer for a period of twelve months, and 

 permits the shooting of two elephants, as also 

 rhinoceros, hippopotamus, antelope, gazelle, buffalo, 

 marabout, egret, etc., in limited numbers. The fee 

 for this licence falls rather heavily on the ordinary 

 sportsman, amounting to ^50, and his best method 

 of proceeding, if not over-burdened with this world's 

 wealth, is to sell the tusks of one of his elephants 

 to pay for the tax. The price of ivory in the 

 Colony varies round about ten shillings to the 

 pound weight, and as a fifty pound tusker is by no 

 means uncommon, especially in Northern Uganda, it 

 would thus about pay for the licence. A return 

 of your bag has to be sent in to the Commissioner 



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