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 . CHAPTER XX ENTEBBE THE ENGLISH CAPITAL INTEBBE is the English administrativecapital of Uganda. The mud hotel weoccupied was called the Equatorial, andif we straddled a certain line in it we would bestridethe equator. But the town is four thousand feetabove the sea and the cool breezes from Victorialake make the place
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 . CHAPTER XX ENTEBBE THE ENGLISH CAPITAL INTEBBE is the English administrativecapital of Uganda. The mud hotel weoccupied was called the Equatorial, andif we straddled a certain line in it we would bestridethe equator. But the town is four thousand feetabove the sea and the cool breezes from Victorialake make the place as delightful as Massachusettsin June. In the garden are oranges and lemons,great beds of feathery papyrus are waving to andfro, and palms can be seen everywhere. This is onthe edge of Victoria Nyanza, and right in the heartof the continent. In the native houses you must take care lest thelizards and scorpions fall on you from the thatchedroofs. You must also tie your shoes tight, lest thejiggers get hold of you. You can see a black stripemoving down the path: it is an army of warrior-ants who will attack you if you get near and whosebites feel like red-hot pincers. Their heads will tearoff before you can pull them from the aching flesh. ^ 320. Entebbe the English Capital 321 Though the lake was discovered about sixty yearsago, much of the surrounding territory remains asyet undiscovered. The equator goes right through the lake andabout sixty miles south the German territory part of Africa belongs to Great Britain, andfrom here to the Mediterranean, including Uganda,the Sudan and Egypt, the whole country is underBritish control. Every foot on each side of theNile is English from Victoria Nyanza at RiponFalls four thousand miles to the country contains some of the richest lands uponearth. Egypt has never been so rich as sinceBritain took possession. The Sudan has vast terri-tories equally fertile and Uganda at the Nilessource is in some respects the
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