Peaks at the Head of ^lobuku Valley. 



Commander ('agui, who \vas liasteiiiii>;' up the Mobuku 

 Valley, had bv this time nearly rejoined his comrades, who 

 believed him to Ije still many days' jom'ney off. 



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

 twenty-five porters, a ricksha^^■ and a horse. In a short time 

 he so far recovered his sti'ength and got so perfectly into 

 trainino- that he was able to make two. or even four, staues in 

 a day. He took advantage of tlie full moon to leave before 

 dawai, and continued the march till late in the day, doing 

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

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

 marched for seventeen hours, covering 32 miles. 



In six days, Cagni reached Toro. where King Kasagama 

 showed him every courtesy. He left again in the morning 

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

 porters who had been sent back fiom the Mobuku Valley. 

 Following the directions of the Duke, he dismissed a portion 

 of them, and sent the others back to Fort Portal, there to 

 await the return of the expedition from the mountains. He 

 iiad difficulty in crossing the AVimi River, which had 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- 

 ino- it across the river, as the expedition had done, he tied 

 too-ether the halter of his horse, the tent ropes, the cord.s used 

 to tie the loads, etc., doubling them several times, and in this 

 way he contrived a rope long enough to cover ahout lialf the 

 width of the torrent. This lie liad kept taut across the central 

 and swifter part of the current hy two groups of men. Thanks 



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