From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 
of the region as well as experimental cultivation of exotic 
plants, such as European vegetables, flowers and fruits, 
coffee, tea, cotton and even vines. Many of these are 
already cultivated widely and with good results in the 
Protectorate. 
At the northern end of the town is the public market, 
the habitual haunt of the natives who congregate in great 
numbers around Entebbe hoping to get a job or an engagement 
as caravan porters. 
SHED IX THE MARKET, ENTEBBE. 
The native village, numbering some hundred huts in all, 
lies further inland, among plantations of bananas, fields of 
maize and lofty trees. 
A fine and well-kept road leads from Entebbe to Mengo 
or Kampala, the native capital of the kingdom of Uganda, 
about 20 miles off, built upon a group of hills, each one of 
which is occupied by a different community. Mengo is the 
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