Peaks at the Head of Mobuku Valley. 



C(>miiiun(ler Caoui, who was luisteiiiiii;- up the Mobuku 

 Valley, had 1)V tliis time nearlv reioiiied liis comrades, who 

 believed him to he still many days' journey of^'. 



He had left Entebbe, as we said, on the 5th of June, with 

 twenty-five porters, a rickslla^^' and a horse. In a short time 

 he so far recovered his strength and got so })erfectly into 

 trainino; that he was able to make two, or even four, stao*es in 

 a day. He took advantap'e of the full moon to leave before 

 dawn, and continued tlie march till late in the day, doing 

 25 to 27 miles at a time. The porters, allured In" presents 

 of a slieep or a little money, performed miracles. Once they 

 marched for seventeen lunn-s, covering 32 miles. 



In six days. Cagni reached Toro, where King Kasagama 

 showed him every courtesy. He left ao;ain in the mornino; 

 of the 12th of June. At Butanuka he found tlie 178 Baganda 

 porters who had been sent back from the Mobuku Valley. 

 Following the directions of the Duke, he dismissed a portion 

 of them, and sent the others l)ack to Fort Portal, there to 

 await tlie return of the expedition from the mountains. He 

 had difficulty in crossino* the Wimi River, wliicli liad now 

 become an impetuous torrent some 50 yards wide, with a 

 depth of more than three feet at some points, and he found 

 a still more serious obstacle in the Mobuku, swollen by the 

 same rains which were imprisoning the expedition at Bujongolo, 



Not having a rope long enough to permit of his stretch- 

 ing it across the river, as the expedition had clone, he tied 

 together the lialter of his horse, the tent ropes, the cords used 

 to tie the loads, etc., d()ul)ling them several times, and in this 

 way he contrived a ro])e lono- enouo-h to cover al)out half the 

 widtli of the torrent. This he had kept taut across the central 

 and swifter part of the current l)y two groups of men. Thanks 



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