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be explicit on this point, as some have hastily inferred 
that my companion did not wish me to share in the 
gratification of seeing the river. Nothing could be 
more contrary to fact. My state of health alone pre- 
vented me from accompanying Speke to set at rest 
for geographers the latitude of the interesting locality, 
as to which we were perfectly satisfied from native 
report. 
II. Camps separated, from July 19 till August 
19. 
On the 1 9th July Speke left with a light equipment 
for what he afterwards named the " Eipon Falls," 
where the Victoria Nyanza discharges itself to form 
the main waters of the White Nile. He intended to 
have joined me at the headquarters of Unyoro by pro- 
ceeding there by boat, but was repulsed in the attempt. 
Budja, the majority of the Seedees, the baggage, and 
myself, struck away in the opposite direction towards 
the capital of Unyoro. The chief incidents of the 
first few days' marching have been embodied in the 
previous part of this chapter. But I will now, to vary 
the narrative, give the events as they occurred daily 
during Speke's absence. 
22d July. — Marched N.N.W. through nothing but 
meadows of tall grass from 7.30 till 10 a.m., seven 
miles — from cultivation to cultivation. Bain during 
the night. The district is in charge of the queen of 
Uganda's brother. During the march a large black 
animal, looking back at us, glancing in the side way 
that an elephant does, ran fearlessly past some huts 
occupied by Wahuma in charge of cattle. No one 
turned out to give chase or showed much alarm ; on 
