Entebbe Again 



I took his house, which was beautifully situated right 

 on the margin of the Victoria Nyanza, which 

 seemed to present a different prospect every hour : 

 now peaceful and lazy, then gloomy and dull, now 

 shining and bright, then worked up to fury and 

 storm. The name Entebbe means a chair. And 

 the town certainly does resemble one in shape. 



As time was heavy on my hands, I wandered up 

 to the law courts — a fine capacious building and 

 very imposing for these parts. I met here a man 

 who promptly asked me to luncheon, and another ^ 

 who offered immediately to put me up for the club. 

 True British hospitality, which meets you every- 

 where you go, and of which we may as a nation be 

 justly proud. I was very pleased with the club, 

 where you could obtain all the latest papers and 

 cables, write your letters, play billiards and cards, 

 and have your meals. There are two rooms where -^ 

 you can be put up with all necessaries supplied. 

 There is also a ladies' reading room, and they have 

 one night kept apart on which lady friends can be in- 

 vited to dine. I happened on this very night. To my 

 consternation 1 was told I must appear in evening 

 dress. I protested. I was still only on "safari," and 

 in consequence had only some very old kit. Offers 

 of clothes were speedily forthcoming, and I, feeling 

 very strange, wore an evening shirt and a white tie for 

 the first time since I had come out a year previously. 

 I felt quite shy going in to dinner, and keeping my 

 eyes well on the ground, tried to behave as if I 

 had been living in civilization for some time. A 



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