WADELAI  , a station on the

east bank of the Upper Nile in the British protectorate of L'ganaa, in 2° 50' N., 31° 35' E., 200 M. in a direct line N.N.W. of Entebbe on Victoria Nyanza, and 72 M. by river below Butiaba on Albert Nyanza . The government station was built on a hill 16o to 200 ft. above the Nile at a spotwhere the river narrows to 482 ft. and attains a depth of 30 ft . At this place was a gauge for measuring the discharge of the river . Wadelai was first visited by a European, Lieut . H . Chippendall, in 1875, and was named after a chieftain who, when visited by Gessi Pasha (on the occasion of that officer's circumnavigation of Albert Nyanza), ruled the surrounding district as a vassal of Kabarega, king of Unyoro . The region was annexed to the Egyptian Sudan and Wadelai's village chosen as a government post . This post was on the western bank of the Nile, ri m. below the existing station . Here for some time Emin Pasha had his headquarters, evacuating the place in December 1888 . Thereafter, for some years, the district was held by the Mandists . In 1894 the British flag was hoisted at Wadelai, on both banks of the Nile, by Major E . R .

Owen . Some twelve years later the government post was withdrawn . There is a native village at the foot of the hill .