From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 
naked women, old and young, who weed out the grass and 
smooth the way with little native spades. 
The first part of the road, where the hills are nearer to 
one another, runs incessantly up and down the steep inclines. 
After Lake Isolt the slopes become gentler, with intervals of 
plain, and the marches are consequently less fatiguing. The 
swamps, too, diminish as the traveller approaches Fort Portal,, 
and the country takes on a healthier look. 
PORTERS’ HUTS. 
The temperature is pleasant in the early morning, but 
towards midday it becomes very hot, although, fortunately,, 
during the hottest hours the sky is nearly always covered 
with clouds, which, be they thick or thin, are always sufficient 
to veil the blazing rays of the sun. Nearly every day or 
night there is a violent but brief thunderstorm with a 
gale and torrents of rain. Happily, the Italian caravan had 
no experience of the terrible storms, accompanied by water¬ 
spouts, cyclones and dangerous electrical discharges, which 
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