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lake to Entebbe, the capital of the Uganda protectorate, and to other 
interesting points in the native kingdom. It has also a large dockyard, 
at which all the lake steamers are built and repaired, and the resident 
part of the modern town contains trim houses, well shaded and backed 
up against the hills which overlook the gulf at this point. 
BIG HUNTING GROUNDS TO THE NORTH. 
Before crossing the lake to Entebbe, the sportsman always samples 
the noted grounds for big game, lying between the Nandi escarpment 
and Mount Elgon, especially along the Nzoia River and along the south¬ 
ern slopes of the mountain mentioned. It is an especially fine lion 
country. All through the lower Nzoia country, in the comparatively 
level stretches of sward, are great ant-hills interspersed with clumps of 
thorn bushes. The ant-hills form good points of observation for the 
hunter and the thorn bushes fine screens. The lions also like to mount 
these towers and survey the country for game, or, if they are tracked, 
to discover the progress and position of their pursuers. This ant-hill 
country is favorable, it seems, both for lion and lion hunter, when the 
sportsman is afoot; bpt it is obviously no place for horsemen. When 
following the animal into cover, the hunter should, if possible, deter¬ 
mine whether he is after a lion, or lioness with cubs. During May, 
June and July they run together in mixed bands, which is a favorable 
season for hunting them; during the other months the females withdraw 
from the males and bear their litters. The months between July and 
May may therefore be called the dangerous months for the sportsmen. 
Besides the lion, the whole country from the Nandi hills to and along 
the Nzoia River abounds in buffalo, eland, roan antelopes, giraffes, Jack¬ 
son’s hartbeests and water and reed buck. Better still, from the railroad 
to the Yala River may generally be found several herds of elephants, one 
seeming especially to haunt the locality near Kibigori station; but the 
great grounds of the monster game are east and southeast of Mount 
Elgon. 
ACROSS THE LAKE TO ENTEBBE. 
Entebbe, across the lake from Port Florence, is the administrative 
capital of the Uganda protectorate and is connected with Kampala, the 
native capital, by a well constructed twenty-five-mile road (not rail- 
