From Xaples to Entebbe. 



Kaviromlo, and luaking gigantic inroads even to the point of 

 40,000 victims in one year. The sleeping sickness is especially- 

 fatal to men in the prime of life, and hence whole villages and 



MARKET, ENTKBBE. 



islands may he found tenanted by women and children who alone 

 have siu'vived. 



The British Museum Expedition mentioned in the preceding 

 chapter, found in the district of Maniema, south of Kuwenzori, 

 a multitude of natives stricken with the sickness and di'iven out 

 from their villages, only to wander hither and thither in the 

 country and die, untended, by thousands. 



Hospitals have been started and are increasing in number. 

 Attempts are made to organize helji and to encoiu'age emigi'ation 

 from the infected districts towards those which are still healthy, 

 but the means are utterly inadequate to gi-apple with the 

 swiftness and the activity of this fearful plague. 



Sleeping sickness is caused by a parasite, a trypanosoma, 

 discovered by Dr. Aldo Castellani in the brain of patients who 



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