The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05

of Americani. This means cotton sheet l ing, and that made in the usual length for 1 ere dress. Both men and women wear l such sheets, so that any large crowd l forms mixture of whites and tans. The whites are the American eottons and the | tans are the bark cloths
 | How the Baganda Look. ] These natives of Uganda are fine looking. They are shorter than the average Caucasian, the men being not more than five feet four or five inches tall. and the women still less. Both sexes are well formed. Every one holds his head up and throws back his shoul- cers, and all are broad breasted and deep ehested. This may come from the | fly nature of the country and the fact that the people do much walking up and down hill.
 eoks and arms and very full breasts. Many of them are like ebony statues, and almost every girl has a form which would be coveted by any American helle- Their erectness of figure comes largely from the habit of carrying things on their heads. This is done by both men and women. During my trip across the country l passed hundreds ; carrying loads in that way. Men went along on the trot with firewood, punches along with glass bottle balanced on on cushions of leaves upon their crowns l saw women carrying gourds Of water upon their heads, so, carefully poised that the water did not spill although -te gourds were untouched by the hand Now and then we passed girl going along with a glass bottle balanced on her pate. and at one place l saw a gang of porters carrying elephants tusks in that way.
 Across Uganda in Jinrikisha. But let me tell you about jinrilzisha ride which I took from Entebbe to Kam- pala, the native capital of Uganda. En- tebbe is situated on Victoria Nyanza 1l5 miles across the lake from Port Flor ence, and Kampala is about 25 miles away back in the hills. The road between the two places has been laid out and inn proved by the British and 1t is now one of the fine drives of the world The road way is about 30 feet wide. It is as hard as stone and as smooth as floor. The grass and weeds are kept out of it. and there are dtches at the side, with culverts here and there to carry off the water The streams are crossed by bridges, and the whole 25 miles is as good as the beach drive along Rock Creek in Washington. or any of the roads at Central Park. Indeed, the only native highways that will compare with it are those of Java, the labor upon which IS done in much the same way.
 A Land of Good Highways.
 Uganda is land of good roads. This country is about as big as Kansas, and it has thousands of miles of native roads. each 10 feet or more in width. This is different from the other countries of Africa
 The most of the native territories are accessible only by footpaths, which wind in and out about the trees and around the stones and logs. permitting passen- gers to travel only single file and on foot. This Is so in the most of German East Africa, in British East Africa and in tine Kongo valley. It was over such roads that Stanley vent and Livingstone and the other great African explorers made their way through such paths
 These roadways are one of the great est signs of Uganda's civilization. They go up hill and down vale, crossing the streams and sWamps bridges and causways.
 Since the British took possession of the country they have improved these native roads They are building others, and one can now go in a jnrikisha, pulled by natives, from flere to Lake Albert, a distance of about 200 miles. I understand that there is even a road to Gondohora, which lies in the Sudan on the other side of Uganda. That place is the termi- nus of steam navigation on the Nile, so that I could go by jinrilSisha from here to that point and thence, by steamboat and rail to the Mediterranean
 Where Women Work the Roads.
 All the roads of this country are kept up by the natives under the direction of