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no traces of the sickness along the river for several days, and the people only seemed to know of it vaguely from hearsay, we decided, under the circumstances, it would be better to give up Mruli and return to Masindi. We therefore left Lejumba's and entered Kitangoli's country on the 18th. This chief met us during the first march, and we reached his headquarters on the 20th. His country seems to be quite under control, and we found natives working hard on the roads all along the route. At his own place he had a good cotton plantation, and also, I was pleased to see, a garden of chillies, grown from seed gathered from the wild plant, which is common through Chiopi. He had already sent about 120 loads of cotton to Masindi.

4. The Chiopi country generally, I think, may now be said to be quite quiet and well under control, except for the few villages round Faweiri.

These have always been very independent, and inclined to dispute Lejumba's orders, partly, I gather, owing to a long-standing feud with him, dating from Kabarega's time, but also owing to encouragement offered them by the Wakedi. They seem to have houses on both sides of the river, and to cross to the Bukedi country on the slightest interference. I should say the population of these villages does not reach 500

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5. I am afraid there has been very little effort to plant cotton throughout the district, though with its natural advantages in the way of soil and water it should yield very large crops, and seeing that there is a water way from Faweiri to within 40 miles to Jinja well known and considerably used, at any rate by the people of Kitangoli's country, the cost of transport should not be very excessive. Kitangoli is the only one of the three Sazas who has made any effort to forward cultivation of anything except food; sim sim has always been largely grown here, being used for food; but chillies and cotton certainly ought to pay handsomely. With the help of these products and the iron industry the country certainly ought to develop very rapidly under enterprising chiefs; but I regret to say Kitangoli alone seems to have realised this, and even he needs instruction, to which, however, he is only too willing to listen. On my arrival in Masindi I was especially asked by the Saza Jemusi to inspect his cotton shambas in Butobe and Bujenji. In company with Mr. Dawe, who had just arrived in Masindi, I therefore went to see them. I am glad to be able to give a very good account thereof. Within a comparatively small area I saw nine plantations averaging 1 to 2 acres, all very thriving and cultivated with great care. These are a great surprise to me after the gardens I had seen elsewhere, in which no trouble had been taken over the weeding. Through- out Bugungu and Chiopi the cultivation, where it had been taken in hand at all, was very slovenly, the cotton often being quite prevented by weeds from bearing anything like the crop that it should do. was informed that Jemusi had in ass in this district 147 similar plantations.

I consider that though Bugungu is not capable of producing a large export trade, it is quite rich in native products, and under a firm and capable Saza no difficulty should be experienced in obtaining a satisfactory tax revenue, especially if the people of the Ganya country across the river are also brought under some sort of control that Chiopi is a country of prospective wealth if ruled by enter- prising chiefs, under which head Kitangoli alone of the present Sazas can be classed, and that it would be of great advantage that they should be taught to use the route by water in disposing of their produce. This route would also tend to open up relations with the Wakedi, and be a help in the eventual civilisation of that country.

A. G. SPEKE,

Assistant Collector.

ACCOUNT OF TOUR BY MR. Speke and DR. ADAMS.

On September 8th, 1905, Mr. Speke and I started from Hoima on a tour through the Bugungu country to Fajao, thence along the south bank of the Nile to Fowera, and on to Buruli. We decided to abandon the last bit of the tour, and set out for Magindi when a day's journey above Fowera, owing to illness, and therefore did not quite reach Buruli.

2. For about ten days before starting on tour, we were employed in inter- viewing the different chiefs through whose territory we should pass, and in showing them specimens of the tsetse fly and in talking to them about sleeping sickness. Mr. Wilson had also many talks with them, and had made them promise to cut

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tracks for us; if this had not been done it would have been almost impossible for us to have gone through the country which we did. The majority of them fulfilled their promises and cut roads for us and helped us considerably in other ways. The Kabaka also helped us by sending some of his headmen with us. These men were invaluable. The chiefs made one stipulation, and that was that no blood-films, &c., should be made. We took some time in explaining and showing them how they were made, but they insisted that if we once began collecting blood or gland pre- parations, we should find every village we came to deserted, and have not the slightest doubt that this would have been the case, many of the natives running away as it was.

3. An itinerary of the villages passed during the tour will be found at the end. The tour was made in order to find out :-

(1.) What places were infested-by tsetse fly.

(2.) In what places there had been cases of sleeping sickness, and whether

the fly was found there as well.

(3.) The nature of the locality in which the fly was found, and

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(4.) Whether sleeping sickness was increasing or decreasing in those places

in which it was known to have occurred.

(5.) If any means could be devised to prevent it spreading across the Victoria Nile by way of the ferry at Fajao, which is much used by traders, &c. 4. Our first camp was at Kajura, 4 to 5 hours from Hoima; no sleeping sickness there, nor could any fly be found. On the Wachi River there are only a very few natives, and those mostly old people; no cases of sleeping sickness. After prolonged search along banks of river two specimens of fly were caught, the only ones seen. There are very few there.

At Daudi's shamba there were also very few people. They said there had been no cases of sleeping sickness there. They knew the fly, but said there were very few there. I saw three only.

Musali's shamba.-No sleeping sickness; a few flies were caught. Henery's shamba. No sleeping sickness; two flies were caught.

At Bugaki there had been six deaths recently; two of them were undoubtedly from pneumonia, one came from Baramweli, possibly sleeping sickness. The other three might have been from sleeping sickness, but the native description of symptoms is not lucid, and they undoubtedly conceal as much as possible. I saw one man who is ill. He was very thin and had enlarged gland in neck; he permitted me to examine his blood-result negative. It was most probably an early case of sleeping sickness. Many flies were found there. This was close to the Weisoka River.

Kitembe, close to the Hi-zi-zi River, which runs into the Waiga River, two days from Lake Albert. Two flies were found close to the river, but there had been no sleeping sickness there and no deaths during the last year. During the last four months all their dogs had been dying. They had excessive diarrhoea and vomiting and great emaciation, death in three to four months. They brought me one dog which was very thin; I took blood films-result negative. They said that all their puppies had been dying too. They brought me two which they had left. I bought one, which I took along with me; blood examined, negative, and he is alive and fit up to the present time. Their goats and sheep were well. They had no cattle.

Matumbwa (headquarters of Mwanga), on the Zolia River. The Zolia River close to the Waiga River, and runs into it just before the latter river runs into the lake.

5. The Waiga along both banks is infested with fly.

6. The following are the villages on the Zolia, in all of which sleeping sick- ness has occurred :—

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