Lake Victoria to Khartoum 



party had been very fortunate in securing several 

 of the many species of East African big game 

 before arriving in Uganda. 



After a short period of further official duty at 

 our capital — Entebbe — he proposed to continue 

 his journey to England, home, and beauty, via 

 the Nile, more as a holiday than anything else, 

 as a much-needed rest from affairs of State after 

 his labours both at home and abroad. 



Although I had previously seen him at Nairobi, 

 in East Africa, with a view to settling the route, 

 inquiring into ways and means, and arranging 

 the hundred-and-one details of this unique 

 chance for an ideal trip through a beautiful tropi- 

 cal country, we did not meet officially till his 

 disembarkation at Entebbe in November. 



After a few days spent in sightseeing there 

 and in Kampala, our party embarked on the 

 s.s. William Alackinnon, from Kampala's port, 

 Munyonyo, for Jinja on Lake Victoria, which is 

 the town perched over the Ripon Falls, the birth 

 of the Nile. We arrived in a violent storm of 

 rain and wind, late in the evening, but luckily 

 found our camp had been pitched well before the 

 rain had begun, so that all the various loads and 

 boxes of stores were well under cover and pro- 

 tected from the wet. 



After a farewell dinner from the Governor that 

 night, we set forth on our first march early in the 

 fresh coolness of the next morning. 



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