In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes . to the Kikuyu coast is hot, moist, malarial and productive;but farther inland the climate is cooler and drierand in the higher regions grass lands prevail onw^hich the semi-nomadic, pastoral and military Ma-sai and other tribes wander with their herds. Threethousand white colonists have taken up holding
In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes . to the Kikuyu coast is hot, moist, malarial and productive;but farther inland the climate is cooler and drierand in the higher regions grass lands prevail onw^hich the semi-nomadic, pastoral and military Ma-sai and other tribes wander with their herds. Threethousand white colonists have taken up holdingsin East Africa. They are the vanguard of a greatCaucasian migration to the equator. The Uganda Protectorate extends from the RiftValley to the Albert and Albert Edward Nyanza,and from the middle of Lake Victoria Nyanza to5° north. The average elevation is over four thou-sand feet, but the lower valleys are marshy andmalarial. In the west the oil palms and bana-nas are cultivated, especially in the kingdom ofUganda proper, northwest of Victoria chief British centre is Entebbe, but the nativecapital is Mengo. The merchant and missionarycentre is Kampala. The eastern region of theNandi Plateau is lofty and healthful. German East Africa contains three hundred and. Geographical Outlines 7 eighty-five thousand square miles, and eight miUioninhabitants, of whom about two thousand five hun-dred are German colonists. It comprises thecoastal plain between the Umba and Rovuma riv-ers and the terraces which rise between the coastand Lake Tanganyika. The Germans have startedplantations near the coast and are already invadingthe interior lands formerly cultivated exclusively bythe natives. Dar-es-Salaam is the chief port, butneither it nor Bagamoyo, opposite Zanzibar, norTanga, opposite Pemba, are so accessible for largevessels as Mombasa. A railway is built fromTanga to Karagwe, and is being extended toMombo on the way to the new colony of Kiliman-jaro, The importance of these
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