30 CIVILIZED UGANDA 



lies on this more or less level platform, excepting 

 some of the military lines, which extend on to the 

 hills above, and the Indian quarter, which is being 

 moved away from the town. 



Considering that less than twenty years ago the 

 site of Entebbe was covered by dense forest, the 

 present condition of the place can be described as 

 little less than marvellous. Instead of growing up 

 haphazard, as so many new towns have done, because 

 a railway has passed that way or some one has hap- 

 pened to find gold, the plan of Entebbe has been 

 carefully thought out, and the result is as pleasing 

 a place as one could find anywhere. Broad roads, 

 with here and there wide open spaces, run between 

 the houses of the officials, which lie in large gardens. 

 Many of the giant forest trees have been left standing 

 in the gardens, and avenues of flowering trees have 

 been planted along the roadsides. The houses are 

 mostly fair-sized brick buildings with wide verandahs 

 and corrugated iron roofs ; the official red colour 

 that they are painted is inconspicuous, but one 

 would think that white would have been cooler. 

 The original Commissioner's residence stood at the 

 top of the steep rise from the lake, but it has been 

 sold to an enterprising syndicate to be converted 

 into an hotel, and the present Commissioner is build- 

 ing a new residence above the town. A gorgeous 

 club-house was being built, and the Europeans play 

 lawn-tennis, and on alternate days cricket and foot- 

 ball, so that, with excellent shooting to be had not 



