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for poets to live and dream. Here lives the native 

 king, Kabaka, who stiU holds his court and administers 

 affairs to a certain extent. 



Mr. Hill, who invited us to spend the night at his 

 place, gave me a great deal of information concerning 

 Uganda. There were less than two thousand wliite 

 people in the protectorate, counting men, women, and 

 children, but more than six thousand motor cars, 

 which speaks volumes for the wonderful rosids. 



On the two highest liills sit rival cathedrals — one 

 Church of England and the other Cathohc. Both 

 are beautiful and impressive buildings, though con- 

 structed by native labor. I made a visit to the Cath- 

 ohc cathedral, finding the interior marvelously done in 

 hand-carved woodwork. It was hard to beheve this 

 entire structure had been built by the native Bugandas, 

 for tliis edifice compared with many of the best in other 

 parts of the world. 



The Kabaka is an engaging potentate with modem 

 ideas. I was told a story concerning him, showing 

 how he apphed the devices of the white man's civihza- 

 tion to the solution of problems arising out of his own 

 native culture. In accordance with the customs of 

 the B Uganda, the king practiced polygamy, his posi- 

 tion allowing liim to add new members to liis harem 

 whenever his fancy dictated. In time his household 

 became so plentifufiy stocked with wives that the 

 place was overcrowded, so the Kabaka sought a way 

 of diminishing his supply, without resorting either 

 to divorce or to w^oman slaughter. He discussed 

 it with his ministers and with a motor-car salesman, 

 the result being that a few days later, the town was 

 plastered with flaming posters, advertising an auction 



