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a village. At the Government post of Masaka the 

 brick walls of the fort enclose a garden of roses, 

 which is a most pleasant little paradise in the 

 wilderness. A very notable feature of the road 

 through this district is the immense amount of 

 traffic which passes along it. Every day we met 

 scores, sometimes hundreds, of natives bearing huge 

 loads of cotton or bark cloth, or skins of goats 

 or cattle, on their way to Entebbe or Kampala. It 

 is inconceivable that the natives of Uganda, as their 

 education progresses and their prosperity increases, 

 will be content to be always no more than beasts of 

 burden. The supply of porters is limited and 

 decreasing, and this form of transport is bound 

 eventually to disappear. It is very much to be 

 hoped that, before many years have elapsed, a 

 system of light railways will be spreading over 

 Uganda ; and not the least important among them 

 will be a line to carry the rich produce from Ankole 

 and Buddu to a point on the Victoria Nyanza, and 

 another line connecting Toro and the south of Lake 

 Albert with Entebbe. 



As we approached Ankole, the Southern Province 

 of Uganda, the country altered very markedly in 

 appearance. We had left behind us the forests and 

 swamps of the Victoria Nyanza region, and had 

 entered an upland region of short grass and rolling 

 hills, a true cattle country. Although the general 

 level of Ankole is only about 5,000 feet above the 

 sea — little more than 1,000 feet higher than the 



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