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by chief Yabuswezi who wished the man to be punished 

 for having bewitched the village, thereby causing a hyaena to 

 carry off three of the inhabitants. I hberated the man, and 

 explained to Yabuswezi that white men do not believe in such 

 superstitions. 



I went to Unyoro by the new caravan road, and I returned 

 to Uganda by the old route which passes by Hoima, the upper 

 crossing of the Kafu River, and through Singo. The number 

 and size of the swamps, through which the old caravan road 



MY HUT AT KOIMA. 



leads, surprised me. In some parts, attempts had been made 

 to bridge a swamp, but not being kept in repair, the scaffolding, 

 had tumbled down. This made it impossible to use the bridge 

 and, owing to the debris, made it most difficult to pass even 

 alongside of it. 



I had in my caravan several Wanyoro porters wearing a 

 petticoat made of strips of leaves of the wild date-palm. 



A favourite shape of gourd-bottle for a journey consists of 

 two bulbs with a narrow neck or constriction joining them. 

 The upper bulb is small and acts as a sort of funnel for filling 

 the bottle ; the neck serves to hold the gourd or to tie it to the 

 girdle when marching. 



