From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 
thanks to the devoted care of the excellent Doctor Hodges, 
might recover in time to overtake them. With this object in 
view, he was left provided with all the equipment necessary to 
permit of his setting out as soon as he should be sufficiently 
recovered. 
On the 14th of May, H.I4.H. and the rest of the party took 
leave of the kind hosts who had done so much to make their 
stay at Entebbe pleasant for them. The Collector, Mr. Martin, 
as representative of the Protectorate Administration, accom¬ 
panied them as far as the frontier kingdom of Uganda with an 
escort of twenty-seven native soldiers and sixty-seven porters. 
ELEPHANT GRASS. 
Early on the morning of the 15th the porters with their 
caravan leaders, the boys, and the soldiers were gathered in 
the courtyard of Berti’s Hotel, where the loads were distributed, 
while the Prince and his companions were taking leave of Cagni 
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