Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



boys got into conversation with ours, and various 

 views were exchanged. Ours stigmatized them as 

 cowardly, stating we were only fifty strong, but they 

 repHed they had seen many soldiers on our ridge, 

 and that although they might have attacked us at 

 first, they feared the many holes and traps which we 

 had dug. Their men had been given orders to hold 

 their fire to the very last, until we were within an 

 inch of their trenches, in the event of our making an 

 attack. A jolly look-out for us. 



Another week brought us an addition to our 

 small circle, as the man in command of the advanced 

 depot paid us a visit. He had been six weeks with 

 no one to talk to, no where to walk to, no papers or 

 mails, and little or no food, and could stand it no 

 longer. He thanked me prodigiously for the goat I 

 had left him on my way through, as it practically 

 saved him from absolute want. I could not help 

 feeling ashamed when I remembered how I had 

 hummed and hawed before parting with it, as I was 

 rather short myself 



The rains of September were already beginning 

 to colour the hills a rich green, and with the 

 intervening patches of brown which were still left, 

 the landscape was more perfect than ever, and I 

 suppose nowhere in the world can there be seen 

 such fine examples of light and shade. Ac- 

 companied by an escort I went out to a high hill 

 on the left of our position, and was surprised to find 

 four extensive lakes lying on the far side. These, 

 of course, were not marked even on the most sketchy 



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