Arrival at Bombo 



defence. They confiscated the tusks, and notified 

 me that the case would be placed before the 

 Governor. I eventually arrived back at Bombo 

 on my birthday, after having been away a whole 

 year, and during this time I had made a complete 

 tour of the Uganda Protectorate, and marched 

 roughly twelve hundred miles in twelve months. 

 I must admit I was not at all sorry to sit down for a 

 spell in a comfortable office and to bed down in a 

 comfortable house once more, though I knew in my 

 inner heart that the call of the *' gubba " and the 

 desire of the chase would in a little while combine 

 to drown this content in a wave of restless feeling. 

 This is the way it takes you. 



I conclude the illustrations of this book with 

 pictures of the far-famed Ripon Falls and the pier 

 at Jinja. Jinja is a port of call on the Victoria 

 Nyanza for steamers on their voyages between 

 Entebbe and Kisumu, in East Africa. It lies at 

 the head of Napoleon Gulf, where the Victoria Nile 

 debouches from the lake, and the falls are not far 

 off. It was from Jinja that I visited the falls. It 

 is from this port that the new railway is being 

 made alona- the bank of the Victoria Nile to 

 Kakindu, to enable traffic from the north to cir- 

 cumvent the falls and rapids, and so make through 

 communication with Mombasa. 



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