Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



apparent. The natives displayed a greater inde- 

 pendence and a more manly bearing, and they 

 were evidently a far superior race, morally, to the 

 cringing though infinitely more obliging Unyoro. 



It might well have been mid-winter in England 

 when I rose to dress myself the next morning. 

 The sky was a dark lemon colour at first, but the 

 clouds presented a fine spectacle as soon as the 

 sun rose, tipping their edges with gold and giving 

 the appearance of having set them on fire. News 

 had arrived of elephant from my last camp, but 

 owing to the urgency of my instructions it was 

 impossible for me to entertain any notion of retrac- 

 ing my steps. So I pushed doggedly on without a 

 stop for close on eight hours, and I was pleasantly 

 surprised to find myself in the midst of a country 

 of short and burnt-up grass, a substantial evidence 

 that the heavy torrential rains had not as yet com- 

 menced to fall in that neighbourhood. As I trudged 

 my weary way my orderly pointed out a fine buck 

 on guard over a regular harem of wives, standing 

 on a hill on my right. A lucky shot brought him 

 down, just in time to provide meat for my deserving 

 porters, who had now carried their sixty-pound loads 

 forty miles in two days. 



Once in camp I met the local chief, Sabadu by 

 name, of the place which he called Chikimba, await- 

 ing me on what I at first thought was a friendly 

 visit, until he informed me that my headman had 

 been beating a native who refused to carry the load 

 of a porter who had fallen down sick. Hinc ill^ 



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