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NEW AFRICA . 
road). There is another fine pike from Kampala to Lake Albert 
Nyanza; and the entire distance of two hundred miles may be com¬ 
fortably covered in an automobile. Entebbe itself was carefully planned 
and built. It has such a charming location, surroundings and accommo¬ 
dations for the visitor that many are suggesting that the literal trans¬ 
lation, “The Chair,” should be rendered more freely “The Easy Chair.” 
The houses are mostly brick, with corrugated iron roofs of red, and the 
official residences are surrounded by large gardens, connected by broad 
avenues. Flowering trees are planted along the streets, and many of 
the gigantic forest trees have been left where they originally stood. 
As to club and social life it is a repetition of Nairobi, plus a beautiful 
site. The shores of the lake, and the islands with which it is studded, 
are ablaze with the brilliant colors of plant and bird, and the air laden 
with tropical perfumes and the myriad noises of insect, monkey and the 
feathered tribe. The slopes between the town and the lake have been 
converted into a fine botanic garden, which is a condensed exhibition of 
the plant and animal life around. 
THE SLEEPING SICKNESS. 
Eight years ago this beautiful region of islands and tropical forests, 
of fertile land and teeming vegetation, was densely populated by in¬ 
dustrious and progressive natives—tilling the soil, herding cattle and 
learning to be good citizens, according to their lights. Since they have 
been swept away in great waves of death by the Sleeping Sickness, and 
one of the most interesting institutions of Entebbe is the laboratory of 
the Royal Commission on Sleeping Sickness, where experiments are 
conducted in the hope of getting at the cause and remedies of the ter¬ 
rible disease. At one time four thousand incurables were slowly dying 
in Uganda hospitals, and thousands more expecting to take their places. 
Up to the present time, however, only a few Europeans have died of the 
malady, one of the unfortunates being Lieutenant Tulloch, who con¬ 
tracted the disease while making the initial experiments at the labora¬ 
tory and died shortly after his return to England in the summer of 1906. 
The only deaths in the railroad districts east of the Man ranges have 
been of Uganda natives who have contracted the disease at home, and 
it has never advanced beyond Mount Kenia to the east or Mount Kili¬ 
manjaro to' the south. 
