The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-16

Hd 2 If are 1es s to
dotted with subsidiary mission stations, each one
center of philsnthropic and Christian effort. On
quaint hatched spires has been built out of very
primitive materials. There are good hospitals, with
sfu doctors and sisters Of charity in con
nection with all the missions. Technical education
now being added to these services I do not know of
any other part OF the world where missionary infu-
and enterprise have been benefeenty exerted
or where more valuable results have been achieved
At the Birthplace of the Nile.
1t is eight miles from Kampala TO Munyonyo 0ittle
on the lake, and this distance we covered in rick.
kinnon venerable vessel awaited our party and we
steamed off the smooth waters of the lake, through
viting than the oher-and all depopuated by sleeping
sickness. All day long voyaged in these sheltered
10 destination.
One cannot help admiring the luck which led Spoke
There 500 CULTS and nlets the northern shore
of Lake Vctoria and nothing distinguishes this one
from the rest. No current perceptibe to the or5i
nary mariner until within few miles of the rapids
nd dd the PRESUMPTION v that 50 ass body of
behind 1t q a backing Of strong probability, the ex
the spot. Instead of which he drifted and padded
gently along until all of sudden the 1nurmur of
pace Of his canoe drew him 10 the ong-sought birth
place of the most wonderful river in the world
or overflow Of the Great lake is closed by naturai
rampant ridge of black rock, broken worn away
these the Nile leaps at once into majestic being and
enters upon its Il perfect river 300 yards
wide this imposing stream rushing down stairway
of rock from fifteen to twenty feet deep, smooth,
swirling slopes of green water
Standing upon the side Of the wall Of rock,
ones eye may be almost plane with the shining
levels Of the lake. At your feet, literally yard
away, vast green slope of water races downward Be
pools from which great fish leap continually in the
sunlight.
Harvesting the Nile at It's Start.
It would be perfectly easy to harness the whole
river and let the Nile begin its long and benefcens
journey to the by leapng through turbine II is
possible that nowhere else in the world could
Of water be held UP by so little masonry
Two three short dams from island to island
the falls would enable, at inconceivably small cost
the whole level Of Victoria Nyanza-over e1panse
of 100000 square miles-to be gradually raised six
feet would greatly increase the available water
power and would enable the lake be maintained at
a uniform level, so that immense areas of swampy
}oreshore, now submerged now again exposed, accord
ing the rainfalls, would be converted either into
clear water dry land, to the benefit of and the
lDcalcUlable destruction of mosquitoes.
We must have spent three hours watching the
ers and revolving plans to harness and bridge them
So much power running to waste, such cogn of
tage unoccupied, such lever to control the natural
forces of Africa ungrlpped cannot but and stimu
late Imagination, And what fun to make the mme-
mortal Nile begin its journey by diving through tur
bine!
(In next week article MI Churchill will tell of the
adventures that befa the traveller that part of
Roosevelt Africa route where he breaks from
all connecting links with civilization and punges across
country, foot through the jungle, at the head of
his train Of porterso
Copyright. 1909, by Winston Churchill.