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interesting day last year in this way, and had a chat with 

 the boy King of Uganda, Daudi Chwa, at Mengo. He was 

 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 (i.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 it is 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. 



