The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-12
JOHN BULLS RULE
OVER THE FR|CANs
Carpenter Tells How Four Million
Natives Are Governed Under the
Uganda Protectorate.
ny FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
tan Correspondent OF The Times Dispatch
Entebbe

[stah Correspondent OF The Times Dispatch
Entebbe.
Take a seat with me on the mud
veranda of the mud hotel at Enteb-
be and look out , over Lake VIC G,
this Unganda protectorate which the
British nave recently added to their
share OF the while mans burden. You
had best keep your hats on. There
are lizards and scorpions in the
matched roof overhead and some may
fall down upon us as we talk. i adj
wise YOU also to tie your shoes tight
and by no means rest your bare feet
on the floor 1t is true 1t is plastered
with cow dung, and that ought to keep
out the ants and the jiggers. The latter
insects. however. have way of
crawling in under ones toe nails
and laying little sacks of eggs in the
us the loss OF our toes. / have had
ten jiggers taken out of my feet since
came into Uganda. and, now, Epifras.
my native servant, goes over my toes
every morning.
DO you see that black band moving
across the path down there in front?
1t is made up of ants, which Will at
tack you if YOU come. near It, They
arc the famous warrior ants, whose
bite feels Ike red-ho pincerS and
whose heads have to be torn from
their bodies before they will let go.
They are far more dangerous than
ciothesline about his neck to tree
nearby. 40 is only about as big as a
Scotch collie. and is not old enough
to know how strong he is. He was
from Lake Tanganyika, who also owns
the two gray parrots with red tails,
who, perched In the tree above it. are
alternately whistling and scolding.
On the Equator.
Before we begin our talk, let us look
around and try to realize where we
are. This mud hotel is called the Equu-
torial. 1t is situated right on the
we could almost straddle the same.
Nevertheless, we are about 1000 feet
above the sea, and the cool breezes
from Victoria lake make the air as
delightful as Virginia in June.
There are oranges and lemons grow
ing out there in the garden, great
beds Of feathery pa,pyrus are waving
to and fro on the shores, and we can
see tall palms with their whispering
leaves everywhere.
We are right on the edge of Victoria
Nyanza, about as rar inland as the
Western NV shores Hnr Of Lake Z, Ike Erie are in
of the African continent. That lake
was not known to the world about fifty
Years ago and to-day q large part of
the lands surrounding it are uneXplor-
1.-the lake, and it is only about sixty
miles south of 1t that the German pos
| sessions begin. This part of Lake Vic
l.torta belongs to Great Britain, and all
the vast territory extending from here
t to the Mediterranean, including Ugan-
da the Sudan and EGYPT, is practical
y under the control OF John Bull, Flo
has every foot of land on each side OF
the Nile, which begins its course by
moving out of Lake Victoria at Ripon
Fails not far from here. and winds its
way for $500 miles. before 1t empti,es
into the Mediterranean Sea. AS the
crow flies, the distance is farther than
from Philadelphia to the Great Salt
Lake; and the country contains some
of the richest lands upon earth
Every one knows Of the wealth of
Egypt, which has never been so rich
rs since the British took hold. The
Sudan has vast territories equally fer
| tnie; and Unganda, away down here al
the Niles source among the highest
| of the African mountains is in some g.
spects richer than ALL
The Uganda Proteetorate.
Indeed, the English officials tell me
that Uganda Is the cream OF the At
rican continent. l have been travelling
some Weeks through 1t. and believe
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