Excerpt from Handbook to British East Africa and Uganda The great interest that we as a nation take in the Continent of Africa could not of itself give me a valid excuse for the following pages, especially as within quite recent times so many works have been published upon the subject. Let my apology, however, be that hitherto each writer has, to a great extent, set down whatever most strongly appealed to him in his particular capacity, with the result that we have - though chiefly limited to the Country of Uganda - books on General History, Missionary Effort, Political and Military Enterprise. In this small work I would endeavour, by giving a general outline of the countries which come under our title, their climate, peoples, and conditions of life, to be of some service not only to the general reader, but also to the Prospective Traveller, Settler, and Missionary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.