Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-11

here and there over the hills. They are
usually rooted with galvanized iron. They
have brick walls and wide porches There
are no native huts in the town proper.
and as a rule very few buildings matched
Will. straw. The police barracks form
one of the exceptions. These lie on the
western edge of Entebbc. ana they
consist ot rude Nuba houses. with cone
shaped roofs
The hotel here is about the only one
in central Africa. In most other places
one has to have his own tents ar To stop
with the officials. ' am usually able tn
get in with an official. and this was the
case at kampala. the native capital.
This new hotel is an oddity 1t is made
of mud and grass. The main building
is. I Judge. about fifty feet square and
1t measures about Twenty-Five feet to
the cone of the matched roof IRIS walls
are only twelve feet high. but The roofs
does not begin for several feet above
them. space of = yard perhaps being
left for air between the walls and the
rafters. This main part of the hotel
contains a dining room. a par.or and 4.
billiard room, with kitchens off at the
side
All the Modern Improvements.
The bedrooms are bungalow-like sheds
made of mud and matched with straw
They are some distance away r-om the
hotel itself and run around the walls
out upon little porch or ledge floored
with mud and coated over with cow
dung well smoothed down. The bed
rooms are foored the same way but
each has rush mat made of papyrus
reeds from Lake Victoria runnin., across
1t. The beds themselves consist Of Il
rude framework of wood. to which are
woven strips of antelope skins Upon
these rush mating is laid. and then A
thin mattress of Uganda cotton. Every
bed has its mosquito netting. This re-
glon Is very malarious. and no one
would think of sleeping here without
such protection. AS for the food of the
| hotel. it is fairly good for central At
rica. although it would be poor any .
! where else. The chief trouble is the
cooking, which is universally bad. As
| to variety. We had at our last dinner n
! soup. some fish. fried brains beef po-
| tatoes and green peas. Our dessert be-
gan with slice of papaia. delicious
melon-like fruit which grows IN a tree
here. and ended with coffee. The hote,
rate Is s: day, including rooms and
board.
During my stay here / have had some
talks with officials to how they han.
died Uganda. Thew tell me that they rule
as far as possible through the natives.
Each petty locality has had its own sys
tenn OF government and its own laws as
far as possible. and the machinery is
adapted to these systems. In Uganda
proper the work is done through the ma
tive council and the little king or the
officers appointed to represent him. The
council or lukiko consists of twenty
chiefs. each of which has his own county
or district with his own court. These
counties are subdivided and given over
to subordinate chiefs until there is per-
haps chief to each village of any size.
The chiefs receive money from the Brit
ish government and in return they collect
the taxes and turn them into the treas
ury. The taxes are assessed at so much
to each hut. the amount being usually
about 81 per year. This seems low. but
when il is remembered that it requires
about a month OF good hard work tn
make dollar out here in Uganda Il will
be seen that il is pretty high after all.
| have met many of the Baganda chiefs
during my stay. They are very intclI-
gent Not few are able TO read. having
! learned TO do so in the mission schools.
One has written book. and all arc more
than ordinarily bright. Not a fen of
them are now keeping their court pro-
ceedings in typewriting. the native Ian
guage having been ada pied to the Roman
| letters SO that the ordinary machine can
be used,
FRANK G. CARPENTER.