Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 



member of the secretariat, who was dining, invited 

 me to join his table, and I was soon happy, lost in 

 the telling of my stories of elephants and buffalo, 

 which he was kind enough to take a great interest 

 in. I had a busy day following. I had fourteen 

 people to interview on topics varying from the 

 purchase of a pulpit to the signing of a committal 

 warrant. It was a delightful change after my year's 

 wanderings to see men in white flannels and English 

 girls in refreshing white dresses, cycling along the 

 shops, or on their way to tennis or golf. 



I took my trophies to a local man, and was 

 grieved to find that all the head skins had rotted, 

 and some of the feet also. I had had no taxider- 

 mine, which is so essential for their proper 

 preservation. I sold my solitary tusk. While it 

 was being weighed, the tame elephant, which the 

 late orovernor Bell had introduced from India, 

 appeared outside the shop, and started rubbing 

 himself against a tree, which nearly broke down. 

 My raw Nuby orderly was simply itching for me to 

 take a shot at it. I must say after having chased 

 so many, it made one feel quite eerie. I spent a 

 long time at the photographers, learning the in- 

 tricacies of a Ross Focal Plain Camera. It had 

 been a great g^rief to me not to have been able to 

 take photos of the wild game which I had shot on 

 "safari," and I determined to remedy this for the 

 future. 



I next paid off all my bills, a weak idiosyn- 

 crasy which I have inherited from an excellent 



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