Chapter TI. 



slirill cries. The sua was setting in a halo of fiery douds. The 

 last rays lit up the nnfaniiliar scenery where the shadows of 

 night increased the si-iisi- of surrounding mystery. 



SHOr.ES OF I.AKK Nlt'TolUA, XKAK KAMPALA. 



Little l)v little the colour of tiie skv passed from red and 

 purple to colder hues and tlu'ongh svdatler tones. Soon clouds 

 and water and islands seemed to minule and \anish in the 

 twilight wliich was spreading swiftly over tlie surface of the 

 lake. 



For hundreds and lumdn^ls of miles on every side stretched 

 the vast regions of Central Africa, unknoA\'n up till yesterday, 

 inhahited Iw that indiappy race which has survived a martyrdom 

 of centuries, crushed under its fearful past of slavery, blood- 

 thirsty rulers and nuu-derous wars. To-day this era of violence 



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