Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-11-09

in the Teso country on "Tbe
III Back Waters of the Nile" They
went out from England as mis-
sionaries and their experiences were
unique. They were on friendly terms
with cannibals, for Algot LANCE has
not a corner on those strange people.
They lived among the most primitive
tribes, men and women who wore only
beads and feathers and others who
wore not even as much clothing as
that.
Mr.. Kitching lived for ten years
among the savage tribes of East Afri
ca, speaking their languages and study
ing their habits and customs in their
aboriginal surroundings, and thus
gained a knowledge of their inner
mode OF life not possessed by any 9th
er white man. He Is not only an OBJ
server but also an agreeable and
graphic writer, and he gives an I'M
usually clear idea of the child mind
and the point of view of these prim-
Tive people.
The Protectorate of Uganda, he
says is miniature edition of the
British empire as most people know it.,
for few penetrate beyond it's borders.
The subdistrict of Bugoma is famous
locally for its fine forest, which teens
with life of every size and description,
from the herds of immense elephants
and the chimpanzees which are FREE
quently met with, down to the gor-
geous butterflies which often throng
the air and paint the pools in the paths
fr,f hx-fIl -
terms.
Next to Bugoma is Bugahya, where
the dialect spoken is SO broad as to
correspond to the Yorkshire which
Tennyson loved to initiate From
these districts the plateau dips sud
denly over to the Albert lake, on the
shores of which live people whose hab-
its-have been moulded by the abun-
dance of fish and the proximity of the
brine supplies. which provide them
with exports.
overrun With Pests.
On the foothills of Ruwenzori and
on the sides of the range nearly up
to the bamboo line live a little known
tribe of low order whose language has
so far not been reduced to writing
These are the Bakonjo, whose physical
bardihood enables them to hunt the
comics and sleep in the open close up
to the snow line, but whose tastes do
not exclude rats and snakes from the
daily dietary. Those who accompa-
MED Mr.. Kitching's party up to the
times in caves, but at other times in
the open.
These Nile districts possess few at
fractions to the average traveller. Not
only are the natives far from being
attractive but the country is oyerrun
with tropical pests. OF these Mr..
Kitching enumerates mosquitoes,
embwa or dog flies, termites, wild pigs
leopards, and worst of all the tsetse
fly. It is, as the Irishman said, a dis
thressful country One may get used
to having ones person devoured by
the embwa, ones house by the ter
mites and ones children by the Loop
ards and hyenas. One may even ig-
more the bites of the tsetse until he
brings the dread infection of the sleep
ing sickness Then, as the deadly
lethargy of the disease creeps over
the infected, the equally deadly numb
ness of despair and Indifference and IA
talism paralyzes the healthy"
On the confines of the protectorate,
In the extreme west and the extreme
east "lle the two cannibal tribes of
Uganda, the Bahuku and the Bagisu
The Bahuku are the last tribe met
with to the west. before the traveller
plung s into the gloomy wildl of the
pygmy forest They are not very nu-