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lake to Entebbe, the capital of the Uganda protectorate, and to other 

 interesting points in the native kingdom. It has also a large dockyard, 

 at which all the lake steamers are built and repaired, and the resident 

 part of the modern town contains trim houses, well shaded and backed 

 up against the hills which overlook the gulf at this point. 



BIG HUNTING GROUNDS TO THE NORTH. 



Before crossing the lake to Entebbe, the sportsman always samples 

 the noted grounds for big game, lying between the Nandi escarpment 

 and Mount Elgon, especially along the Nzoia River and along the south- 

 ern slopes of the mountain mentioned. It is an especially fine lion 

 country. All through the lower Nzoia country, in the comparatively 

 level stretches of sward, are great ant-hills interspersed with clumps of 

 thorn bushes. The ant-hills form good points of observation for the 

 hunter and the thorn bushes fine screens. The lions also like to mount 

 these towers and survey the country for game, or, if they are tracked, 

 to discover the progress and position of their pursuers. This ant-hill 

 country is favorable, it seems, both for lion and lion hunter, when the 

 sportsman is afoot; but it is obviously no place for horsemen. When 

 following the animal into cover, the hunter should, if possible, deter- 

 mine whether he is after a lion, or lioness with cubs. During May, 

 June and July they run together in mixed bands, wdiich is a favorable 

 season for hunting them ; during the other months the females withdraw 

 from the males and bear their litters. The months between July and 

 May may therefore be called the dangerous months for the sportsmen. 

 Besides the lion, the whole country from the Nandi hills to and along 

 the Nzoia River abounds in buffalo, eland, roan antelopes, giraffes, Jack- 

 son's hartbeests and water and reed buck. Better still, from the railroad 

 to the Yala River may generally be found several herds of elephants, one 

 seeming especially to haunt the locality near Kibigori station; but the 

 great grounds of the monster game are east and southeast of Mount 

 Elgon. 



ACROSS THE LAKE TO ENTEBBE. 



Entebbe, across the lake from Port Florence, is the administrative 

 capital of the Uganda protectorate and is connected with Kampala, the 

 native capital, by a well constructed twenty-five-mile road (not rail- 



