CAIRO TO KISUMU off, but the ground is covered with luxuriant grass. Near the villages are little cultivated patches in which the na¬ tives raise peanuts, Indian corn, and a millet-like sorghum.

I see them everywhere digging up the black soil. Their naked bodies are almost as dark as the dirt they are hoeing. The British are developing the Kavirondos as general farm workers. Their wages range from three to five rupees a month.

Around Lake Victoria and all along the Uganda Rail¬ way large tracts of land have been taken up by Europeans, and some of this is being ditched and drained. I gather that it is the intention to turn the whole into one great cotton plantation, and see no reason why that should not be done.

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