50 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



As far as I have been able to judge, a very large 

 amount of the country is suited to cattle. In Usoga 

 cattle are both plentiful and cheap, and, as I can 

 say from experience, stand travelling well, and 

 yield, for Africa, a fair supply of milk. Goats 

 and sheep do well everywhere. 



A very unfortunate fact seems to be that horses 

 do not thrive in Uganda. The reason I cannot 

 rind out, but none seem to be in a really healthy 

 condition anywhere in the country. The humble 



Fig. 11. — Kinani Hill. 



but useful donkey, on the other hand, seems to 

 get on very well. 



That English vegetables almost without excep- 

 tion thrive in Uganda, proves that at the lowest 

 estimate the essentials of European food can be 

 obtained. In my own opinion, however, it would 

 not be going too far to say that, with proper trans- 

 port, the Victoria region may become one of the 

 greatest food-producing centres in the world. 



The preceding remarks, which are necessarily 



