The Holbrook news., 1912-08-02


 in the Teso country on ''The
 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 Lange 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
 MT. Kitching lived for ten years among the savage tribes of East Afri- ga, 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 oth- CT white man. He is not only an ob- server but also an agreeable and graphic writer, and he gives an un- usually clear idea of the child mind and the point of view of these prim- itive people.
 The Protectorate of Uganda, he says. is a miniature edition of the British empire as most people know it, for few penetrate beyond its borders. The subdistrict of Bugoma is famous locally for it's fine forest, which teens with life of every size and description, from the herds of immense elephants and the chimpanzees which are ire quently met with, down to the gor- geous butterflies which often throng the air and paint the pools in the paths in countless brilliant hues and pat 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 little known tribe of low order whose language has SO far not been reduced to writing. These are the Bakonjo, whose physical hardihood 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 aocompa- nied Mir Kitching's party up to the foOA of the glacier would sleep some 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 overrun with tropical pests. Of these MT. 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 one's children by the leop- ards and hyenas. One may even ig- nore the bites of the tsetse until he brings the dread infection of the sleep ing sickness. Then, as the deadly Iethargy of the disease creeps over the infected, the equally deadly numb ness of despair and indifference and fa- talism paralyzes the healthy"
 On the confines of the protectorate, in the extreme west and the extreme east "He 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 into the gloomy wild- of the pyEmy forest They are not very nu-