in Mengo now? They can rarely be seen from the road, as the roads are bounded by reed fences, and each house is surrounded by a grove of plantains, banana, and wild fig-trees. The reed fences are not substantial, and, latterly, most natives have taken to making growing fences. It is only necessary to cut off the branch of a tree, or the upper half of the stem, stick it into the ground, and with the first rain it takes root and grows, so that a living fence is the simplest thing to propagate. The poles used to hold the telegraph wires in Usoga and Uganda were saplings, which have taken root and are now good growing trees. Similar poles stuck into the ground as table-legs occasionally take root and produce leaves.
The ordinary food of the natives is plantains. The difference between plantains and bananas is tantamount to that between cooking and eating apples. In appearance
