INDEX Uganda Railway, travel on the, 243; cost of construction, 247; American bridges used, 247; lions kill many during construction of railroad, 250. United Presbyterian Church mission school at Asyut, 76.

Valley of the Kings, archaeological excavations in the, 117. Victoria, Lake, altitude, 247; cotton plantations being established around, 302. Wakamba, tribe of East Africans, 284. Wellcome, Henry S., founder of re¬ search laboratories at Khartum, 200, 205. Whirling Dervishes, fanatical actions of, 46. Windmills, American, used for pump¬ ing water along the Nile, 33. Wingate, Sir Francis Reginald, Gover¬ nor-General of the Sudan, inter¬ views with, 175, 181. Women, as labourers in Central Africa, 172.

Zagazig, agricultural centre, on the Nile, 31. Zebra, in East Africa, 271.

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