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AT a special meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on the evening of November 3, Captain F. D. Lugard gave an account of the geographical aspects of his work in Uganda. The hall of the University of London was crowded, and although the issue of extra tickets was suspended, a large number of Fellows and their friends failed to get admittance. An excellent hand-map, by Mr. Ravenstein, enabled the audience to follow Captain Lugard's route. The first part of the paper was concerned with the journey from Mombasa along the Sabakhi river, an unnavigable stream, to Machako, the furthest station of the I. B. E. A. Company at that time, the district passed through being almost uninhabited, and supplies difficult to procure. The greater part of he paper related to Uganda and the other countries surrounding he Victoria Nyanza, where Captain Lugard was in comnand for two years. On the Kavirondo plateau, east of the lake, there is a promising field for European colonization. The plateau is crossed by the Equator, but at elevations of from 7000 to 8000 feet the climate is cool and exhilarating. It is possible, judging from experience in other places, that highlands close to the Equator are healthier for Europeans than those of similar mean climate lying nearer the tropics. Kavirondo is admirably adapted for grazing, and ranches similar to those of the west of America might be tried. From the pasture lands of this plateau the transition to the rich plantations of bananas and casava of Usoga and Uganda is very marked, and the unclothed natives of Kavirondo give place to the comfortably-dressed Waganda, a warlike people, but skilful in all the arts of peace.
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Uganda. Nature 47, 45–46 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047045a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/047045a0