ROOSEVELTS JOURNEY FROM UGANDA DOWN THE NILE 427 
never comes, and he especially admired the charming outlook from the 
Government House, with its smooth, green lawn, the beautiful trees 
which shaded it, the gleaming face of the sun-kissed lake in the near 
distance and the stately setting of the purple hills afar. And this in 
a clime which, with its soft, cool air, seemed to belong to summer 
lands far removed from the region of the equator. 
After a brief stay in Entebbe as the guest of the Governor of 
Uganda, he set out on a motor trip to the Uganda capital. No one 
could follow the high road from Entebbe to Kampala without feeling 
himself in a bath of beauty, in which the pervading green was enlivened 
by blooms of all the colors of the rainbow and in the rich soil of' which 
grew every variety of tropical fruits, with others introduced from the 
temperate zone and familiar to their new visitor. 
The American visitors viewed Kampala with the same enthusiastic 
approval with which they had greeted all the Uganda scenes. As for 
the city itself, one scarcely discovers it even when in its center, the 
huts of the natives being so environed with clustering banana trees as 
to be scarcely visible. But beyond this sea of leaves rise the several 
hills on the slopes of which much of the city lies, one showing on its 
summit the king’s palace, a second the buildings of the English resident 
officials, a third crowned with the Christian churches, etc. We do not 
know if Roosevelt ejaculated “Bully for you!” on observing the scene 
spread before him, but if he did it would have been characteristic. 
Colonel Roosevelt had not sought King Dandi’s capital as a haven 
of rest. He has the faculty of never resting while there is anything 
that seems to him worth doing or worth learning, and the account 
above given of one day’s activity of his stay in that city will show that 
he did not come there with the hope of basking in inglorious ease. To 
up and be doing is his native motto and one which he rarely foregoes. 1 
In the six or seven weeks of his projected stay in Uganda he did 
not propose that time should hang heavy on his hands. His months 
of hunting in British East Africa had not surfeited him. Uganda 
had its animals also, its broad domains over which wild beasts wander 
in multitudes, and there was always the possibility of bringing down 
some species new to his career, possibly of finding some animal new 
to science, a mate for the okapi found a few years before in the section 
of Africa in which he now was. 
