Identifier: inwildestafricar00macq (find matches)
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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The peoplewant cotton goods, and they especially like ourAmerican sheeting. Little stores are now springing up in the morehighly populated centres, and there are a score ofsuch establishments between Entebbe and Kampala. Indeed, the British are making a new nation ofthe Baganda. Only a few years ago the wholenation was warring with its neighbours and en-slaving the weaker tribes. Mtsesa had a large armyand his predecessors had many wars. Justice wasthen practically unknown and human life was of noaccount. The people had no incentive to work.They lived upon the bananas which they grew intheir gardens; they made their clothes from thebark of the fig tree and their houses came from thecane of the swamps. To some extent such conditions still prevail, butthe people each year want bigger houses and betterhomes. They are beginning to use kerosene, andthe huts of the chiefs are lighted by lamps. Someeven have little patches of carpet, and a few arebeginning to use modern furniture. Shoes and
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The Development of Uganda 351 stockings are beginning to be worn, and the desirefor all foreign things is becoming an incentive towork. So far the advance has been slow and thelow wages, amounting to only four or five centsa day, are not particularly favourable. As timegoes on this condition will change, and in a gener-ation more there will be a fine, self-supporting semi-civilized nation at the head of the Nile. It has been the Governments policy to grant butfew concessions for the exploitation of Uganda.The lands are held by the natives and also by theBritish Government. Some of the chiefs own largetracts. The native Prime Minister, for example,has about a hundred square miles of land. He ownsa thousand head of cattle, and his income is overfive thousand dollars a year. Other chiefs havesmaller tracts, and the King himself has a consid-erable property. All forests over two miles square are supposedto belong to the British Crown. The timber is es-pecially valuable, and the rubber pos

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