From Entebbe to Fort Portal. 
monkeys. After a long march of seven hours they reached 
Fort Portal on the same day. 
On approaching Fort Portal, H. R.H, was received by the 
King of Toro, Kasagama, a handsome man, above the average 
stature, with an open and intelligent countenance. He was 
accompanied by a large escort carrying numerous gifts. 
After crossing the belt of cultivated fields around the city, 
they entered the wide, clean street of Toro blazing with 
sun, and flanked on either side by the chiefs of the region 
who had come with escorts to receive the expedition. The 
street was crammed with people, and especially with noisy 
children. 
Fort Portal was founded in 1891 by Capt, Lugard after he 
had deposed Kabarega, who was an ally of Mwanga in his 
revolt, and had set Kasagama upon the throne in his place, 
thus ending a period of frightful persecutions and raids which 
had nearly depopulated the country. The site of Fort 
Portal is very healthy. It stands at a height of 5,000 feet 
above the sea, in a basin bounded to the west by the range 
of Ruwenzori, which slopes down towards Lake Albert in a 
long chain of gradually lessening spurs, and to the east by 
the hills which divide the basin of Lake Albert Edward from 
that of Lake Albert. Of the great range only the highest 
points are visible, when by exception they are not covered with 
clouds, above an advanced buttress known as the Portal Peaks. 
To the north-west, at the foot of the mountains, are scattered 
volcanic cones among which lie numerous small crater lakes. 
The European residents of Fort Portal, including ladies, 
are scarcely fifteen in number. Tliey consist of the Sub- 
Commissioner, the Collector, the Commander of the troops, 
and the Catholic and Protestant Missionaries. The dwellings 
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