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Lake region, and possibly introduced the disease there. I 

 myself was the witness of sick men regardlessly abandoned, of 

 dead and dying, who marked the way even in the Cataract 

 region." 



After Stanley had met Emin they eventually proceeded to 

 Zanzibar but a large number of soldiers and followers were left 

 behind in a district to the west of the Lake Albert Nyanza. 

 When Captain (now General Sir Frederick) Lugard arrived in 

 Uganda in 1908, after deposing Kabarega, he went to Albert 

 Nyanza and recruited a body of Sudanese, the remnants of 

 those left behind by Stanley and Emin Pasha. About 400 to 

 500 able-bodied men were enhsted as soldiers and they, with 

 their rabble of 7000 wives, children and followers, were settled 

 in South Toro in 1891. A year later it was found advisable 

 to move them to Busoga where they could be under better 

 control, and for some years there continued recruiting of Sudan- 

 ese soldiers brought to this province. 



Sleeping sickness was then unknown in this part of Africa 

 for none of the chiefs or missionaries had ever seen it and the 

 symptoms are so evident that cases could hardly have been 

 overlooked. In 1901 the disease was first recorded from Busoga 

 and on investigation Dr Hodges found that sleeping sickness 

 had occurred in one district of this province for six years 

 previously and that many hundreds of natives had already 

 died of it. As many of the settlers in Busoga had originally 

 come from the Congo with Stanley's force, there can be little 

 doubt that they were responsible for the introduction of the 

 disease. In the next seven years the epidemic assumed such 

 proportions that in Busoga alone no less than 200,000 people 

 out of a total population of 300,000 died of sleeping sickness. 

 The disease was also prevalent in Uganda, occurring along the 

 shore of Lake Victoria and on the islands. 



In 1901, Forde noticed some peculiar parasites in the blood 

 of a patient who was admitted into the hospital at Bathurst, 

 suffering from an unknown type of fever. The followmg year 

 Dutton examined the blood of this patient and found the 

 peculiar parasites noted by Dr Forde, and recognized that 

 they were trypanosomes. Subsequently trypanosomes were also 



