From Entebbe to P^'ort Portal. 



naked women, old and young, who weed out the grass and 

 smooth the way with Httle native spades. 



The first part of the road, where the hills are nearer to 

 one another, runs incessantly up and down the steejj inclines. 

 After Lake Isolt the slopes hecome gentler, with intervals of 

 plain, and the marches are consequently less fatiguing. The 

 swamps, too, diminish as the ti'aveller approaches Fort Portal,, 

 and the countrv takes on a healthier look. 



PORTERS HUTS. 



The temperature is pleasant in the earlv morning, l)ut 

 towards midday it becomes very liot, althougli, fortunately, 

 during the hottest hours the sky is nearly always covered 

 with clouds, which, be they thick or thin, are always sufficient 

 to veil the blazing rays of the sun. Nearly every day or 

 night there is a violent liut brief tliunderstorm with a 

 gale and torrents of ram. Happily, the Italian caravan liad 

 no experience of the terrible storms, accompanied by water- 

 spouts, cyclones and dangerous electrical discharges, which 



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