New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-27

marvel at its escape from the tropic heat or the
lowIands. on arriving at the Zanzibar coast. one
finds pestilential vapOr laden atmosphere where
the at in midsummer is directly over
head. and where work is practically impossible
except In the early mornings and late evenings.
After landing at the port of Kiiindni. which is
large enough to hold 1.-THE entire British navy.
one must follow the route of the Uganda railroad
more than two hundred miles the westward
before there is any promise Of relief. All this
distance the land is unsuited to the European
settler laborer
But beyond the two hundred-mile post the
traveller finds himself in a picturesque country.
much like the fertile parts OF California. For
about four hundred miles further vgetation is
most luxuriant, and the climate is tempered by the
elevation. The heat is dry and does not seem to
PROSTATE and with the night GOODNESS.
There are virgin forests. tracts of grassy
plain and many rivers. The soil is a black alluvia
loan, which proves most fertile under cultivation
And there is no need OF irrigation in Uganda, for
1t rains there some fifty inches Of water year.
The temperature ranges from 80 to 30 degrees
Fahrenheit, and the 100000 natives who inhabit
the land show by their more robust physique that
it is a more healthful place to inhabit than the
miasmic coast OF Zanzibar.
In Uganda at the present time England is
suzerain with a native King and three chiefs In
nominal control There Is practically money
rax in Uganda. The government is run according
TO a feudaI system. which divides the people into
four castles At the bottom Of the social order is
the slave population. composed chiefly of prisoners
Of war. Then come the peasants. who constitute
the masses or laboring class. ADose these are the
batougoH. chiefs and mon Of wealth, but who
have no hereditary rights. on top of all are the
big land owners who rule governors over their
petty hefs. Zach gives tribnte To- the caste above
The language Of the tribe inhabiting Uganda is
particularly rich IN words. When native adj
dresses You he uses about FIVE times the words
that an American would deem Necessary Most OF
these words are nouns.
You gentleman. prince. master, Joker. merchant
scholar husband" is \ common expression used
in greeting English trader.
The chief food of these people is the banana. and
from this fruit too. they obtain their favorite
drink The banana grows practically without cu-
tivation and for this the native finds little
TO do. Stimulated. however. by the enterprise Of
the English. many natives now work at pottery
making boat building and the manufacture OF
bark clothes. The Uganda people, unlike me ma
tives of the Jungle 60 fully dressed
The English have begun the cultivation Of wheat,
cotton coffee rice and potatoes. for the soil has
been found suitable for all these staple products.
When Nr. Chamberlain visited the country last
December he said that a grain and cotton
growing country British East Africa would one
day stand uneXCelled
Uganda has been made accessible to the world
through the Uganda Railroad, which has cost
British taxpayers some $950O.OOa Thus far the
settlement Of the country has been hndered. II is
said by official red tape. Prospective settlers have
come from Australia and South Africa, who were
men Of experience in grain growing and cattle
raising but after declaring that the Uganda was
wonderfully adapted for these lines OF industry
they have been forced TO elsewhere. because of
the great length of time necessary obtain title 70
land.
Uganda has area OF $4,000 square miles.
little more than the State Of South Carolina. II
the Jews make their home there. there is unm-
tied room to the westward, where is only a
jungle wilderness inhabited by elephants, bufalos
zebras. rhinOceri, wild bOars, antelOpes. lions
leopards, tackals foxes, hyenas. hares. chimpan-
ices. monkeys and hundred kinds of fowl. and
much insect life. 1t is a wilderness such Moses
in all his forty years of wandering probably never
| dreamed Of.