Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



around me on the floor of the hut, minutely interested 

 in watching- the two white men taking^ their food. 



The King's son was quite a decent boy, having 

 been educated at Kampala, and could speak and write 

 English with tolerable fluency. The sick having been 

 attended to and arrangements for food completed, I 

 started off from the last camp, where it would be 

 possible to obtain supplies, with four sheep and 

 fourteen fowls to carry me on till my return. I 

 encamped that night in the "gubba," and as there was 

 hardly a stick in the place, my porters had no means 

 of making their grass huts. In consequence there 

 was a great deal of grumbling. Even the next day, 

 on our way to Kakamero, the discontent showed 

 itself by the lazy, loafing way in which the " safari " 

 proceeded, and as Kakamero is seven hours from 

 Kazara, it took a long time getting there. The 

 country was very uninteresting, composed of burnt- 

 up grassy slopes, but in the distance I could see 

 noble hills massed together in generous profusion, 

 outlined against the sky. I also passed a lake — of 

 what size I could not say, as the far end was lost in 

 the haze. 



Kakamero is a quaint place — not that there is 

 much of it. Just what you would expect the end 

 of the world to be. You get to it through a 

 narrow pass in the hills, and you leave it by just 

 such another. It is itself almost entirely surrounded 

 by perpendicular clifTs. The chief told me the 

 natives would not bring in food, but that he held 

 some Government stuff, which was delayed by want 



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