which encourages them to paddle more or less in time. Crossing the lake from Ugowe Bay to Entebe by steamer occupies the greater part of two days, one night being spent at anchor, as the narrow passages between some of these islands are very dangerous to traverse at night. Two new railway steamers were launched in 1903, and travelling is now fairly comfortable. The line of the equator is crossed en route, so it goes without saying that in Uganda there is always twelve hours’ sunlight and eleven hours’ darkness, with two half hours of what may be called twilight dividing the two. In March and September there is absolutely no shadow at noon, the sun being immediately overhead.
There are no seasons in Uganda, roughly speaking. It is always hot, and it has been said that the heat penetrates into the ground six feet all the year round, as against one foot in England, in July and
