From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 



(livers messengers. Now the great man himself ^^•(>Tll(l appear, 

 clad in a flowintr white tunic, or a mantle of more or less costly 

 material, and with sandalled feet, surrounded by retainers, 

 bearing the umbrella and stool, the insignia of power, and 

 followed by a train of ministers and a bodyguard armed with; 

 lances and staves. 



The rear was usually brouglit up by a crowd of natives 

 driving goats and sheep, or even calves and bulls, and bearing 



NATIVE BAND. 



baskets full of fowls, eggs and bananas, to be presented as gifts 

 to the strangers. A noisy band with drums, trumpets, horns 

 and flutes would either follow or precede the cortege. Some- 

 times the chiefs would come with their escorts as for as the 

 boundary of their own territory to meet the expedition, and 

 accompany it to its lialting-place. As to the musicians, they 



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