CHAPTER III 



CIVILIZED UGANDA 



' I rather would entreat thy company 

 To see the wonders of the world abroad, 

 Than, living dully sluggardized at home, 

 Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.' 



Shakespeare. 



It is perhaps hardly necessary to state that Entebbe 

 is the administrative capital of Uganda ; but, as it is 

 still omitted from many even of the most recently 

 published maps, it may be as well to remark that it 

 lies at the extreme north-west corner of the Victoria 

 Nyanza, and is consequently only a few miles north 

 of the Equator. The British officers who chose the 

 site for the future capital must have had an unusual 

 share of foresight and imagination, for they could 

 hardly have found a more beautiful spot. The town 

 — whose name in the native language means ' The 

 Chair ' — lies near the end of a long and hilly pro 

 montory between two narrow inlets of the lake. 

 The landing-place is on the east side of the town, 

 and the way leads up by a steep high road, shaded 

 by immense forest trees, to a sort of level platform, 

 the seat of the chair presumably, behind which rise 

 two pointed hills. The greater part of the town 



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