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 . ed races have practically noreligion at all. Cannibalism lingers in the westerncorners of Uganda; while the natives of otherparts are importing canned meats, and are printingin their own language summaries of their past his-tory. This is the country of the okapi, the whale-headed stork, the chimpanzee, and the five-ho
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 . ed races have practically noreligion at all. Cannibalism lingers in the westerncorners of Uganda; while the natives of otherparts are importing canned meats, and are printingin their own language summaries of their past his-tory. This is the country of the okapi, the whale-headed stork, the chimpanzee, and the five-hornedgiraffe; the rhinoceri with the longest horns; andthe elephants with the biggest tusks. Whatever drawbacks may be found in theUganda Protectorate from the white mans point ofview, monotony or lack of interest is not amongthem. The Elgon district is one of the loveliest in thewild heart of Africa. The country is extremely^?ertile, traversed by the only three rivers enteringthe northern half of Victoria Nyanza. There isnot much forest, although certain forests that followthe western slope of the Nandi Plateau are amongthe densest and richest in the Protectorate. Thereis evidence to show that this whole region was once ,forest land, — deforested through the agency of. Photograph by Peter Dutkewieh, copyright, 1909, by Underwood & Underwood, N. THE XANDI COUNTRY, NEAR MOUNT ELGON. The Uganda Protectorate 301 man, only a few clumps of trees being left standingon hill tops, in connection with spirit worship. The whole of the land is most grateful to theeye, consisting of rolling downs covered with thegreenest of grass, and made additionally beautifulby the blending of the green with fleecy white,shining mauve or pale pink when the grass is inflower. The villages are aggregations of huts surroundedby an immense floral hedge, consisting of the beau-tiful pink Acanthus Arboreus, mingled with coral-red aloes. The sleek, humped cattle, often gray or whitein colour, the parti-co
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