. Our holiday in Africa . n. Along this partof the river for three hundred miles the traveler would haveto walk, or to be carried in a hammock. The walking is notvery good in this section, and it takes about thirty days to dothis. The water is scarce and the heat very great. The flies,moscjuitoes, elephants, buffaloes, rhinoceros, hippottami, lions,leopards, antelopes and many insects abound here. Afterdoing the walking, the river steamers and railways would takeone through and all the way down the Nile to theMediterranean. Every year there are parties who do this trip,and some of the
. Our holiday in Africa . n. Along this partof the river for three hundred miles the traveler would haveto walk, or to be carried in a hammock. The walking is notvery good in this section, and it takes about thirty days to dothis. The water is scarce and the heat very great. The flies,moscjuitoes, elephants, buffaloes, rhinoceros, hippottami, lions,leopards, antelopes and many insects abound here. Afterdoing the walking, the river steamers and railways would takeone through and all the way down the Nile to theMediterranean. Every year there are parties who do this trip,and some of them women. We had, before leaving home,thought of doing this trip, and wrote to Thomas Cook & Son,of London, inquiring about it, but they replied that on accountof the three hundred miles of w-alking, it was not practical. On landing at Jinja there is a large sign reading in En-glish, To Ripon Falls. \\e took a Rickshaw\ propelled bythree lustv natives, pointed to the sign board and told them to 53 OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA. UGANDA take ns to the falls. They started in the right direction, andwe supposed it was understood where we wanted to go. Wehad been told it was only about fifteen minutes walk. OurRickshaw men took us through the pretty little tin town ofJinja and out in the country on a well graded and mecadam-ized road, through fields of bananas, which were in a finestate of cultivation, and every few hundred yards would befound a small native village nestling among the banana peculiar thing aljout all these natives of Central Africa is,that they build their huts and villages as far as possible out ofsight, so that one might travel for days through a thickly set-tled partion of Africa and see almost no habitation. Quitelikely, this idea of building their huts and villages in secretedplaces was brought about by the continual w^arfare among thetribes. In several places we passed one hundred or more na-tive men resting^ in the shade of large trees. They had car-ried cot
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