i A The American Naturalist. [May, 
and smiths, and can be readily taught European methods of working, 
They are fond of music, have many rude musical instruments, and pos- — 
sess a currency of cowries. Mentally, they are certainly superior to 
the surrounding races. Uganda is divided into ten provinces, each of: 
which has its chief, while over all is set a vizir. The system of land- 
tenure is very complex, and chieftainships are complicated. The » 
northern part of Ankoli is thickly peopled, but the land has suffered 
terribly from the cattle-plague, which has reduced all the pastoral ~ 
tribes of this region to a state bordering on starvation. Not only have 
millions of domestic cattle fallen before this dread disease, but the 
buffalo has been practically exterminated, while the eland and the 
smaller kinds of antelopes have suffered severely. 
The Albert-Edward or Mwutanzige is really a double lake, for the 
long northeastern arm known as Ruvango is only connected with the © 
larger body by a river not more than 500 yards across. This lake is 
abundantly supplied; the Mpanga alone brings down more water 
from Ruwenzori than is taken out by the Senliki. y 
During his circuit from the Victoria by the Albert-Edward to the 
Albert Nyanza and Wadelai, Captain Lugard picked up the Sudanese 
refugees left by Emin Pasha, and upon his return was accompanied by _ 
some 9000 people. He concluded his address before the Royal Geo- 
graphical Society with a graphic picture of the present disordered state of 
the countries west and north of the Uganda, smitten by the cattle-plague, 
oppressed by a usurper named Kabarega, and only prevented from 
freely accepting protection, from the fear that all protectors, like Stan- 
ley, will depart and thus leave them a helpless prey to the vengeance 
of their oppressors. ‘sf 
Uganda is a region of rounded grass-clad knolls, while Unyoro is more 
rugged, often with fantastic piles of granite, and abounds in caves- 
The rivers of Uganda are large papyrus swamps with no current, and 
little open water. The hills are of red marl or shaly gravel. In past 
times Uganda had broad roads, often with culverts across water, 40° — 
even now it would be easy to make a good road to the Albert Nyanza. 
More grain is grown in Unyoro than in Unganda. A survey for | 
projected railway from the coast to Victoria Nyanza has already been 
made for 350 miles. 
There seem to be several small lakes in Buddu, a province í 
Uganda west of the Victoria Nyanza; in Koki, a tributary state as 
of Buddu, and in Ankoli, the eastern part of which has loftier hills 
and poorer soil than Buddu. One of these lakes, between Anko’ 
and Koki, is named Kashera. Iron seems to be abundant in the 
