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then about nine years old, and very bright and intelligent. 
He made no objection to my taking his photograph, but it 
unfortunately turned out a failure. 
It is curious to find the Baganda (z.e., people of Uganda) 
highly civilised—the majority are Christians—surrounded 
as they are on all sides by nations of practically naked 
savages ; and it is a very interesting sight to watch them 
in the “bazaar” at Kampala, clad in long flowing cotton 
garments, and busily engaged in bartering the products of 
the country under the shade of tattered umbrellas. Un- 
fortunately the great scourge of the district round the 
shores of the Lake is the sleeping sickness, which in the 
past few years has carried off thousands of the natives, and 
has quite depopulated the islands, which were once densely 
inhabited. The disease is communicated by the bite of an 
infected fly, but happily this pest is only found in certain 
well-defined regions, so that if the traveller avoids these 
he is quite as safe, as regards sleeping sickness, as if he 
had remained in England. 
On the return journey from Entebbe, Jinja, a port on the 
north side of the Victoria Nyanza, is usually called at. 
This place is of great interest, as itis here that the Lake 
narrows into a breadth of only a few hundred yards, and, 
rushing over the Ripon Falls, forms the long-sought-for 
source of the Nile. The magnificent view of the mighty 
river stretching away to the north amid enchanting scenery 
is most inspiring, and one can well imagine how elated 
Speke must have felt when, after enduring countless hard- 
ships, he at last looked upon it and thus solved one of the 
great problems of the ancients. 
