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and watercourses. Many of the trees are similar to those of the 
Queensland scrubs, as the figs, Ter min alia , Myrtacesc, Euphorbiacete, 
Meliacea), Bauhmia , Calamus, Pathos , Cycas, Pandanus , Ardisia , 
JKfymwe, Sgmplocos. Shrubby Leguminosse, as In dig of era and 
Desmodiim , are as common as in North Queensland ; but the monks- 
hoods and larkspurs recall the European forests. Lycopodiums and 
Selaginellas are common ; and the same families of ferns are repre- 
sented as in tropical Australia, including the great fern of the North 
Queensland gullies, Angiopteris evecta\ and the birds’-nest fern, 
AspJenium nidus. Orchids are showy and numerous, and most of the 
North Australian genera are represented ; and many of your favourite 
garden plants, Thunbergias, Beaumont ins, Buddleias , and Hydrangeas, 
have here their home. 
6.— BUG AN DA A' 
By Rev. GEO. K. BASKERVILLE. 
I have never before done such a tiling as write a paper for more 
than very private occasions, and so I rather tremble; also my time is 
limited, and even now I fear that this will scarcely reach you in time. 
Dr. Wright, whom you mention in your letter, is no longer in the 
Buganda Mission; he had a serious illness, and was forbidden by 
doctors to return to Africa. He is now at Nablus, in Palestine, in 
charge of a hospital. People know so much about Buganda these 
days that it will be difficult to tell you anything new. I shall not 
attempt to write politics ; they are odious things, and ours is only a 
most unwilling connection with them. Of course it is a comfort to 
have the Union Jack flying at Kampala, and to have an English 
resident — a vast improvement to the regime we found here when wc 
arrived just three days later than Captain Lugard, of the I.B.E.A.f 
Company. Please do not think that I wish to pick to pieces what the 
officials of the company did in the country; some of them I have had a 
great liking for; but it was annoying to them to find that the native 
Christians would always consult their teachers on all points, which 
was only natural, and to be expected. I may say that for our part 
we did all we could to curb our people, teaching them that though 
perhaps slighted or snubbed here, yet their reward was before them. 
The Ki ng is still the same old weathercock that he always has 
been. lie is most intelligent, and seems to take an interest in being 
taught. T have not been resident in the capital for some time, and 
hence, I think, am better able to give you an idea of the state of 
religion, and what advance it has made in the country. Since I left 
Mengo in February of last year, I have moved about a great deal 
in the province of Kyagwe, which lies between Mengo and Basoga. 
Several of the chiefs were chiefs in Budu in the old days, the province 
west of Victoria Nyanza. The great majority of the peasants, how- 
ever, are the same who were here before the war, and were born here. 
In the old days, w hen nothing was or could he done in the provinces, 
it was the chiefs and their hoys and personal attendants who were 
reached, and of the chiefs some w r ent and spent occasionally a short 
time teaching in their gardens, but not many. They had not learnt 
Commonly known as Uganda. 
f Imperial British East Africa. 
