CONTENTS 



>'AGE 



Dedication. By Henry Newbolt - - • v 



Preface ------- vii 



Introduction. By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant - xxi 



CHAPTER I 



ENGLAND TO EAST AFRICA 



Origin and objects of the British Museum Expedition — 

 To East Africa by foreign steamships — Germans 

 crossing the Line — Mombasa — The modern traveller 

 in Uganda — Game on the Athi Plains — Kenia and 

 Kilimanjaro — Prospects of the colony - - i 



CHAPTER n 



NAIVASHA AND THE VICTORIA NYANZA 



Kikuyu and the Great Rift Valley — Lake Naivasha — 

 A naturalist's paradise — Water-lilies and papyrus — 

 Sea-eagles and willow-wrens — Zebras and water- 

 buck — Crescent Island — The descent to the Victoria 

 Nyanza — An ocean steamer in Mid- Africa — Storm- 

 clouds, or clouds of flies ? — Entebbe- - - t6 



CHAPTER III 



CIVILIZED UGANDA 



The official capital of Uganda — Sleeping Sickness Com- 

 mission and hospital — The Botanic Gardens — Grey 

 parrots and monkeys — Rickshaws and bicycles — 



