From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 



divers messengers. Now the great man liiniself wunld appear, 

 clad in a flowing white tunic, or a mantle of more or less costly 

 material, and with sandalled feet, surrounded by retainers 

 bearing the umbrella and stool, the insignia of power, and 

 followed ])V a train of ministers and a Ijodymiard armed with 

 lances and staves. 



The rear was usually brduglit up by a crowd of natives 

 drivino' eoats and sheei), or even calves and bulls, and bearintr 



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baskets full of fowls, eggs and bananas, to be presented as gifts 

 to the strangers. A noisy l)an(l with drums, trumpets, horns 

 and flutes woidd eitlier follow or precede the cortege. Some- 

 times the chiefs would come with their escorts as far as the 

 bovmdary of their own territory to meet the expedition, and 

 accompany it to its lialting-place. As to the musicians, they 



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