From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 



thanks to the devoted care of the excellent Doctor Hodges, 

 might recover in time to overtake them. Witli this ohject in 

 view, he was left provided with all the equipment necessary to 

 permit of his setting out as soon as he should be sufficiently 

 recovered. 



On the 14tli of May, H.K.H. and the rest of the party took 

 leave of the kind liosts who liad done so much to make their 

 stay at Entebbe pleasant tor them. The Collector, Mr. Martin, 

 as representative of the Protectorate Administration, accom- 

 panied them as far as the frontier kingdom of Uganda with an 

 escort of twenty-seven native soldiers and sixty-seven porters. 



KI.KPHANT CRASS. 



Early on the morning of the loth the porters with their 

 caravan leaders, the boys, and the soldiers were gathered in 

 the com-tyard of Berti's Hotel, where the loads were distributed, 

 while the Prince and his companions were taking leave of Cagni 



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