From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 



inonkey.s. After a louu- marcii of seven hours they reached 

 Fort Portal on the same day. 



On approaching Fort Portal, H.P.H. was received by the 

 King of Toro, Kasagama, a handsome man, above the average 

 stature, with an open and intelligent countenance. He was 

 accompanied by a large escort carrying numerous gifts. 

 After crossing the belt of cultivated fields around the city, 

 they entered the wide, clean street of Toro blazing with 

 sun, and flanked on either side by the chiefs of the region 

 who had come with escorts to receive the expedition. The 

 street was crannned with people, and especially with noisy 

 children. 



Fort Portal was founded in 1891 bv Capt. Lugard after he 

 had deposed Kabarega, who was an ally of Mwanga in his 

 revolt, and had set Kasagama upon the throne in his place, 

 thus ending a period of frightful persecutions and raids which 

 had nearly depopulated the country. The site of Fort 

 Portal is very healthy. It stands at a height of 5,000 feet 

 ahove the sea, in a basin bounded to the west by the range 

 of Ivuwenzori, which slopes down towards Lake Albert in a 

 long chain of gradually lessening spurs, and to the east l)y 

 the hills which divide the basin of Lake Albert Edward from 

 that of Lake All)ert. Of the great range only the highest 

 points are visible, when by exception they are not covered with 

 clouds, above an advanced buttress known as the Portal Peaks. 

 To the north-west, at the foot of the mountains, are scattered 

 volcanic cones among which lie numerous small crater lakes. 



The European residents of Fort Portal, including ladies, 

 are scarcely fifteen in number. They consist of the Sub- 

 Connnissioner, the Collector, the Connnander of the troops, 

 and the (Vitholic and Protestant Missionaries. The dwellinp's 



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