Chapter IIL 
The town is situated upon two hills at the extremity of a 
peninsula formed by two arms of the lake. The streets are wide 
and lined with houses, built according to the usage of the 
tropics, with wide verandas surrounded by gardens full ol 
flowers. The site is enchanting, overlooking the great lake, 
dotted with picturesque islands ; the wire netting, however, 
over windows, verandas and doors, tells its own story of 
malaria. 
GENERAL VIEW OF ENTEBBE. 
There is an hotel, there are Protestant and Catholic 
Churches, there are three hospitals, several commercial firms 
(among others a branch of the “Italian Colonial Society” 
established in Zanzibar), and sundry shops and stores kept by 
Indians and Goanese. 
Along the shore of the lake stretches a considerable 
botanical garden, which contains a collection of the flora 
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