ch. xiii] VICTORIA NYANZA 865 
by clearing all the forest and brush in tracts, which 
serve as barriers to 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 survivors 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 monstrous 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. Entebbe is a pretty little town of 
English residents, chiefly officials, with well-kept roads, 
a golf course, lawn-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, 
