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Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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t to this district, inhabited by the Langoand Miro tribes, who differ little in appearance andscarcely at all in language from the Acholi of theUpper Nile. Bukedi is now under the administra-tion of a Uganda chief and has been thoroughlysubdued in connection with the rout and dispersal,by Major Delme Radcliffe, of the last remnants ofthe Sudanese mutineers, who took refuge here in1897. Kasunguru, the chief, received us. He is a veryclever politician. Buckley, who is an Irishman,has made so deep an impression on the ruler ofBukedi that the latter had his wife arrayed in agreen silk dress, greener than the greenest greenof the dear old Emerald Isle. When I told Kasun-guru that England was on one side of the Atlanticand America on the opposite side, he asked incredu-lously : Where, then, is Ireland ? We travelled southward, and everywhere thekindly missionary was received with heartiest goodwill by the primitive inhabitants. Food and drinkwere always placed before us wherever we stopped,
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The Uganda Protectorate 315 and the Bukedi towns turned out to honour thesimple, devout priest who seemed to them to be afriendly visitant from some supernal realm. A remarkable description of the life and condi-tions in the Eastern Province of Uganda was pre-sented a few months ago in a report issued by theBritish Colonial Office at London. It was writtenby Sir H. Hesketh Bell, Governor of Uganda,whose literary ability is well known among Englishauthors. Describing Bukedi, he said that the country isdensely populated by primitive and war-like tribes,who possess no political organization, and whofor the most part are absolutely naked and un-ashamed. The district was a revelation to him. I quote from his report: Though I had heard already of the enormousdensity of the population, and of the remarkablepitch to which they had carried their cultivation ofthe land, my trip filled me with amazement. We travelled for four days through enchantingscenery, and traversed a country the like of wh

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