Chapter X. 



of wings. Bihiinga had hecome an iiuportaut centre. It was 

 the jjlace wlieie the Bakonjo porters passed on the loads to 

 the Baganda of the plain who had again been concentrated 

 at Iljanda. 



Ibanda had now become a big permanent camp. The 

 members of the expedition, as they arrived from Bujongolo, 

 were received bv the neighbouring chieftains with the usual 

 ceremony and oflering of gifts. The camp had become the 

 natural meeting place for all the inhabitants of the surromiding 



PORTERS I\ CAMP, AT IBANDA. 



villages. Women and old men were busy rooting out 

 weeds and j^reparing the ground to construct new huts 

 near the tents. From morning till night there was a racket 

 and bustle ; they all crowded aromid the fires, around the 

 kitchens, around the barbers, while the native soldiers wandered 

 hither and thither attempting to keep a little order in the 

 confusion. The ii\er was generally fidl of natives, bathing 

 and disporting themselves in the water with great enjoyment. 



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