From Entebbe to Fort Portal, 



of the region as well as experimental cultivation of exotic 

 plants, such as European vegetables, flowers and fruits, 

 coffee, tea, cotton and even vines. Many of these are 

 already cultivated widely and with good results in the 

 Protectorate. 



At the northern end of the town is the public market, 

 the habitual haunt of the natives who congregate in great 

 numbers around Entebbe hoping to get a job or an engagement 

 as caravan porters. 



SHED IN THE MARKET, ENTEBBE. 



The native village, numbering some hundred huts in all, 

 lies further inland, among plantations of bananas, fields of 

 maize and lofty trees. 



A fine and well-kept road leads from Entebbe to Mengo 

 or Kampala, the native capital of the kingdom of Uganda, 

 about 20 miles ofl", ])uilt upon a group of hills, each one of 

 which is occupied by a different community. Mengo is the 



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