The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-12

west arc Albert. Edward and Albert
Nyanza. joined by the Semliki, and
further down is the Nile. on the. east
is Lake Rudolf an enormous body of
water, and throughout the whole coun-
try are beautiful little lakes, ponds,
rivers and creeks.
AS to the extent of the protectorate,
New England added to New York,
New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia. 1t has u
bigger population than New England.
and bigger than that of any state OF
our Union with the exceptions of New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio or Illinois.
The people all told number between
4 100000 and 5,O00.00O, and of these
over 100000 are chris
tians. These are the semi-civilized
Five Great Provinces.
The British have divided up this ter
ritory into five provinces. Originally
year or so, they have taken off the
lands lying east of the lake and given
them TO British East Africa. That
province contains the naked kavirondo,
of whom ] have already written. 1t
is traveresed by the Unganda Railway,
which terminates on the lake at Port
Florence. The tive provinces of Ugan-
da consist of the kingdom of Uganda,
the central province 10 the east of 1t,
the western province lying between 1t
and Lakes Albert Edward and Albert,
and the Rudolf and Nile provinces at
the north.
The central province which is al
most directly north of Victoria Ny
ANA, is fertile to an extreme. 1t Dor,
ders on the Kavrondo country, and
many Of its people go naked. 1t is
densely populated, and its people raise
cattle, sheep and goats. They also do
considerable farming. one of the most
characteristic features of this province
of the high mountains of the CONT
nent 1t is an enormous volcano,
whose lower slopes are covered with
forests and on whose top are frequent
snow storms, although 1t is almost on
tho equator.
Among the curious features of this
mountains are its. caves which have
been inhabited by the natives for ages.
They use them as homes and as sta
hles for their cattle, sheep and goats.
The cattle caves are never cleaned,
and the manure of ages beds their
floors They swarm with tleas and
the stencil is terrible. Roads are now
being cut through the central province
by the native chiefs and one would
have no difficulty in journeyinS
through it.
Western uSnndn.
Inc poorest part OF lhe UGANDA pro-
tectorate is in the north. The coun-
try fades out into the desert not far
from Lake Dudolf, and the Nile pro-
vince partakes somewhat of the nature
of the sudan. AS to the western pro-
vince, that is high and healthy 1t is
a broken tableland a great part of
II mile above the sea, rising in some
places to high mountains. The coun-
try is well watered. and a large part
of it is covered with tropical forest
filled with monkeys. The people are
well-developed black negroes. who de-
vote themselves largely 10 stock rails
ing, They have cattle with horns so
large that they seem TO be leading
the beasts. In this same region there
are pysmies just like those which
Stanley describes as living in the for
ests of the Congo,
These western natives are not so
advanced as those of Uganda proper.
Many of them go naked, and others
are clad only in aprons of bark cloth
tied by strings around their waists.
with scars, have seen some who
have their breasts and stomachs cut
in such patterns that they somewhat
resemble Persian shawls, Many of
them file their teeth, and altogether
they are low in the scale of African
civilization.
The Capital OF Uganda.
wish we could send Uncle Sam to
Entebhe and show him how John Bull
handles these millions OF savages
This country has more than half as
many people as the Philippines, ana
Tor their warlke characters John
Bull takes care of them all with a
few score of officials and about $500
soldiers. His soldiers are almost all
native blacks, and most of them have
been recruited from the country itself.
There are n few East Indian sikhs