Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



down. Fortunately I had brought some alum with 

 me. Countless mosquitoes infected the camp, and 

 as I was dog-tired, I turned in early. 



The next morning I got up in the dark, had 

 breakfast, struck my tent and packed up in the dark ; 

 although at frequent intervals the terrific lightning 

 lit up everything. The most quaint person I met 

 along the road was a black albino male, and a more 

 awful face I never saw before. He appeared to 

 me to be of slender intellect. The scenery was 

 charming, and being very hilly, presented me with a 

 continuously changing landscape. Bushes of con- 

 volvuli, purple and yellow, bordered the sides of the 

 road. I at last taught my Luganda boy to wheel 

 .my cycle up the hills without tripping over it. He 

 seemed to be able to run after me for a great 

 distance without much discomfort, as a jog-trot was 

 quite a natural method of progression to him. 



All natives walk in curves instead of straio^ht to 

 4 their front, and even when walking on an European 

 road their tracks can be seen to wander first to one 

 side and then to the other. I might mention that 

 however much they may be given to winding on the 

 flat, when a hill is reached the paths invariably lead 

 straight over the highest point. 



On my arrival at Busibica, at the bottom of a 

 somewhat stiff descent, a huge wide open plain 

 stretched out before me apparently under cultivation. 

 I enquired from the natives how there came to be 

 so much arable land in that neighbourhood, and I 

 found out that the Uganda Company were planting 



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