From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 



The dill of* the chattering, laug'hiiio- and slioiitiiig was a Httle 

 (Hiniiiished in tlie liard hits of road only where a steep up-hill 

 would set even those who were not loaded j^anting. From 

 every little village along the w^ay the natives ran out, curious 

 to see the sight and exchange chatter and laughter with the 

 porters. Now and then the travellers met a caravan bringing 

 salt from Toro, or ivory from the Congo, or even a white trader 

 travellino- with liis own escort. 



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The native escort exercised a certain discipline over the 

 numerous party, and intervened from time to time to adjust 

 quarrels and disputes started, as a rule, by tlie porters who, in 

 order to lighten their own labour, would requisition by force 

 any other natives whom they might meet on the road. 



The blacks are on the whole childlike, good-natured and 

 peaceable, or ill-tempered and savage, according as they are 

 managed. With a little tact and goodwill, not without 

 necessary firmness, it is easy to direct their impulsive natures. 



The great majority of the caravan consisted of Baganda, 

 the real native population of Uganda, whose anthropological 

 characteristics are so diverse as to presuppose the product of 

 mingled elements. Some of their features are distinctly 

 negi'oid ; as, for instance, woolly, jet black hair ; the nose sunk 

 at the root, flat and wide ; broad, protuberant lips and 

 projecting ears. But tlie prognathism is not marked, and 

 the brow is wide and iiot retreating. They are usually 

 lean, not muscular, and do not give the impression of a 

 very strong people. 



TIkmi- manners and customs seem more advanced than in 

 many otlier African tri])es. They neither dye nor grease their 

 skni ; tliey do not tattoo their persons nor cover themselves 

 witli decorative scars, and witli the exception of the children 



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