UGANDA

inland Brit. protectorate, bounded n. by the Anglo-Egyptian bounded n. by Kenya Colony to shore of Sudan, n. by Kenya Colony to shore of w. by Belgian Congo. Surface is plateau, over 3,000 ft., with mountains in s. and w. rising to height of 14,000 to chief river is Nile; lakes include part of Victoria, Edward, Albert, and Rudolf, and whole of George, Kioga, Salisbury. Average maximum temp. 80° F., average minimum 63° F.; rainfall from 10 to 100 in. according to locality; malaria prevalent; soil in general very fertile. Bug and a prov. and Unyoro abound with magnificent timber; swamps are rank with papyrus, rushes, reeds, and coarse gra . ‘Tropical forest fringes the margin of Victoria Nyanza and _ clothes Semilki valley. Economic products are rubber, cocoa, coffee, acacia gums, gum copal, incense, shellac, and ebony; cotton grows well, as do sugar-cane, groundnuts, sesamum, castor oil, and other oil plants. Chief exports are cotton, coffee, hides and skins, ivory, ghee, rubber; imports, provisions, textiles, machinery. bas a to Kisumu, Lake Victoria, 584 m., completed in 1902 at cost of over (62 m.) from Jinja; and line (74% m.) from Port Bell to Kampala; mail service by runners is in vogue; telephones and telegraphs are being extended. Uganda is divided into five provinces: (1) kingdom of Bug and a, on w. shores of Victoria Nyanza; (2) w. prov., on w. boundary; (3) N. prov., along w. to N. boundary; (4) Rudolf prov., from nN. boundary to (5) =. prov., lying ». of Bug and a. The governor administers justice, raises revenue, and controls native chiefs, who, however, govern their own subjects. Europe ans are tried in Brit. courts; there is a High and an Appeal Court (of judges from neighboring protectorates). Islands in Victoria Nyanza are home of sleeping sickne , and are now abandoned. The natives consist of Bantu and Nilotic negroes, Ma ai, pygmies. (in Semliki forest), and some Hamitic tribes; about one-fourth are Bag and a, who are cieties. Brit. cap. is Entebbe; native cap., Memgo. Captain Speke was first European to visit Bug and a (1862); welcomed by King Mtesa. Stanley, also well received (1875), was invited to send mi ionaries. These came (1877, 1879), but Mwanga, Mtesa’s succe or, ma acred Christians in 1885. Uganda was a igned to Great Britain by AngloGer, treaty (1890), and protectorate (1897). but was soon put down, and mutiny of Sudanese troops in same year quelled after some months’ fighting. Sir H. Johnston, sent as commi ioner (1899), reorganized protectorate. Area, including 1,269 Europe ans. See map Africa. town, on Upper Volga, Yaroslavl, Ru ia; cathedral (XIII. cent.); paper-and noble active for Guelph faction; placed by Dante among traitors in lowest circle of Inferno. |