From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 
The word grass, by the way, is hardly appropriate to a 
growth which, while reaching a height of from 10 to 20 feet, 
is at the same time so dense as to make it practically impossible 
to deviate from the path, and offers far more analogy to a huge 
bed of reeds than to a meadow. It is called “ elephant grass,” 
and is indeed a pasture appropriate to such a herd. From 
time to time the elephant grass makes way for herbaceous 
vegetation on a more modest scale, not more than three feet 
high, and dotted with innumerable flowers. 
PLANTAIN GROVES. 
The natives are in the habit of setting fire to the grasses 
during the dry season. Possibly the vast fires thus kindled, and 
which spread especially on the heights where the earth is dry 
and where the wind fans the flames, destroy the young trees, 
and so hinder the formation of forests except in the sheltered 
valleys beside running water. The fact is that, as a rule, the 
trees which stand here and there among the tall grasses, and 
give the country the characteristic look of a park, are all of 
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