From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 



thanks to tlie devoted care of the excellent Doctor Hodges, 

 iiiii^lit recover in time to overtake them. With this object in 

 view, lie was left provided with all the equipment necessary to 

 permit of his setting out as soon as he should be sufficiently 

 recovered. 



On the 14th of May, H.R.H. and the rest of the party took 

 leave of the kind hosts who had done so much to make their 

 stay at Entebbe pleasant for them. The Collector, Mr. Martin, 

 as representative of the Protectorate Administration, accom- 

 panied them as far as the frontier kingdom of Uganda with an 

 escort of twenty-seven native soldiers and sixty-seven porters. 



ELEPHANT GRASS. 



Early on the morning of the 15tli the porters with their 

 caravan leaders, the boys, and the soldiers were gathered in 

 the cointyard of Berti's Hotel, where the loads were distributed, 

 while the Prince and his companions were taking leave of Cagni 



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