100 NEW AFRICA. 



road). There is another fine pike from Kampala to Lake Albert 

 Nyanza ; and the entire distance of two hundred miles may be com- 

 fortably covered in an automobile. Entebbe itself was carefully planned 

 and built. It has such a charming location, surroundings and accommo- 

 dations for the visitor that many are suggesting that the literal trans- 

 lation, "The Chair," should be rendered more freely "The Easy Chair." 

 The houses are mostly brick, with corrugated iron roofs of red, and the 

 official residences are surrounded by large gardens, connected by broad 

 avenues. Flowering trees are planted along the streets, and many of 

 the gigantic forest trees have been left where they originally stood. 

 As to club and social life it is a repetition of Nairobi, plus a beautiful 

 site. The shores of the lake, and the islands with which it is studded, 

 are ablaze with the brilliant colors of plant and bird, and the air laden 

 with tropical perfumes and- the myriad noises of insect, monkey and the 

 feathered tribe. The slopes between the town and the lake have been 

 converted into a fine botanic garden, which is a condensed exhibition of 

 the plant and animal life around. 



THE SLEEPING SICKNESS. 



Eight years ago this beautiful region of islands and tropical forests, 

 of fertile land and teeming vegetation, was densely populated by in- 

 dustrious and progressive natives — tilling the soil, herding cattle and 

 learning to be good citizens, according to their lights. Since they have 

 been swept away in great waves of death by the Sleeping Sickness, and 

 one of the most interesting institutions of Entebbe is the laboratory of 

 the Royal Commission on Sleeping Sickness, where experiments are 

 conducted in the hope of getting at the cause and remedies of the ter- 

 rible disease. At one time four thousand incurables were slowly dying 

 in Uganda hospitals, and thousands more expecting to take their places. 

 Up to the present time, however, only a few Europeans have died of the 

 malady, one of the unfortunates being Lieutenant Tulloch, who con- 

 tracted the disease while making the initial experiments at the labora- 

 tory and died shortly after his return to England in the summer of 1906. 

 The only deaths in the railroad districts east of the Mau ranges have 

 been of Uganda natives wdio have contracted the disease at home, and 

 it has never advanced beyond Mount Kenia to the east or Mount Kili- 

 manjaro to the south. 



