CHAPTEE IX. 
THE UGANDA MARCH, APRIL 14 TO MAY 27, 1862 — MAEIBOO 
AND HIS UGANDA FOLLOWERS — RICH FOLIAGE — FERRYING 
THE RIVER KITANGULE — SUPERSTITION AGAINST SOUNDING 
THE RIVER — VICTORIA NYANZA, A BOUNDLESS SEA — FINE 
COUNTRY BETWEEN KITANGULE AND KITONGA — FLORA OF 
THE DISTRICT — INCIDENTS OF THE MARCH — LUNCH WITH 
UGANDA WOMAN — DISAGREEABLE MARCH — THE GOVERNOR 
POKINNO — SUMMER-HOUSES OF THE UGANDA. 
Having- been detained at Karague for so many months, 
I was right glad to have a prospect in the end of 
March of getting away to join my companion. A 
party of Waganda, under an officer named Mariboo, 
arrived to take me as far as the Kitangule river, four 
marches, where large boats were said to be lying to 
convey me by the lake to Uganda. This, however, 
was not the case ; no boats had been sent, and the 
journey of twenty-nine marches was performed by land, 
much to our disappointment, as Speke had previously 
been over it, and we missed the navigation of the 
Nyanza. Day by day the Waganda escort deluded 
me with the idea that we would come upon boats by 
the side of the Nyanza ; and Mariboo ordered the 
