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the fly, and which permit passage through the infected 
belts. On the western shores of Victoria Nyanza, and in 
the islands adjacent thereto, the ravages of the pestilence 
were such, the mortality it caused was so appalling, that 
the Government was finally forced to deport all the sur¬ 
vivors inland, to forbid all residence beside or fishing in 
the lake, and with this end in view to destroy the villages 
and the fishing fleets of the people. The teeming lake 
fish were formerly a main source of food supply to all who 
dwelt near by; but this has now been cut off, and the 
myriads of fish are left to themselves, to the hosts of water 
birds, and to the mofrstrous man-eating crocodiles of the 
lake, on whose blood the fly also feeds, and whence it is 
supposed by some that it draws the germs so deadly to 
human kind. 
When we landed there was nothing in the hot, laughing, 
tropical beauty of the land to suggest the grisly horror 
that brooded so near. In green luxuriance the earth lay 
under a cloudless sky, yielding her increase to the sun’s 
burning caresses, and men and women were living their 
lives and doing their work well and gallantly. 
At Entebbe we stayed with the acting-Governor, Mr. 
Boyle, at Kampalla with the District Commissioner, Mr. 
Knowles; both of them veteran administrators, and the latter 
also a mighty hunter; and both of them showed us every 
courtesy, and treated us with all possible kindness. En¬ 
tebbe is a pretty little town of English residents, chiefly of¬ 
ficials; with well-kept roads, a golf course, tennis courts, 
and an attractive club house. The whole place is bowered 
in flowers, on tree, bush, and vine, of every hue—masses 
of lilac, purple, yellow, blue, and fiery crimson. Kampalla 
