WE MARCH TOWARDS UNYORO. 
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when we joined our forces and marched into Unyoro 
headquarters. 
I. Uganda to Karee, four marches; camps 
UNITED. 
The country at first was hilly. As we proceeded 
north, it gradually assumed the appearance of parks 
and grazing grounds, dotted with trees and clumps of 
bushes, favourable for stalking. Water was abundant 
in the sandy-bottomed streams and miry swamps. 
With this change of outline, we had no longer the 
gigantic reed of Uganda ; it was replaced by a waving 
grass three feet high. The trees were small, the same 
as those species met with 5° south of the equator. 
Scarcely one-tenth part of the route was under culti- 
vation. Plantain groves were more abundant than 
fields of sessamum and Indian corn ; and in the houses 
we occupied, bundles of seeroko and jooggo (a pulse 
and bean) were found. It was a disagreeable march 
in one respect ; for as soon as our caravan halted at a 
grove, the cultivators fled, and when we entered their 
houses we found the fire burning, with earthen pots, 
grain, and vegetables, and their beds and bark-cloth 
bedding undisturbed. All the etceteras about their 
snug little domiciles lay at the mercy of our men. 
Knives, shields, shells, beads, skins, pipes, tobacco, &c, 
hung from the roof, or were stuck into the rafters ; 
and, on our leaving, it was not a rare occurrence to 
find that our men had ruthlessly burnt some of the 
supports of the hut to make themselves a fire to 
cook their food. This they would do most wantonly, 
although they had the best of the country, paying no- 
thing for the plundered goats and other property per- 
