From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 
divers messengers. Now the great man himself would appear, 
clad in a flowing white tunic, or a mantle of more or less costly 
material, and with sandalled feet, surrounded by retainers 
bearing the umbrella and stool, the insignia of power, and 
followed by a train of ministers and a bodyguard armed with 
lances and staves. 
The rear was usually brought up by a crowd of natives 
driving goats and sheep, or even calves and bulls, and bearing 
NATIVE BAND. 
baskets full of fowls, eggs and bananas, to be presented as gifts 
to the strangers. A noisy band with drums, trumpets, horns 
and flutes would either follow or precede the cortege. Some¬ 
times the chiefs would come with their escorts as far as the 
boundary of their own territory to meet the expedition, and 
accompany it to its halting-place. As to the musicians, they 
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