Peaks at the Head of Mobuku Valley. 
them to start again promptly. They were once found on the 
road, shivering in the rain and stark naked, having taken off 
their vests and blankets so as to enjoy to the full the heat 
of the glowing coals. They ate eagerly whatever food was 
supplied to them, but they did not like novelty. They made 
wry faces before making up their minds to swallow tea, and far 
preferred their mess of dura flour, which to us seems nauseating 
to the white wheat flour, even when prepared with butter. 
In spite of these trying conditions of life, the Bakonjo 
showed admirable patience and docility. It was very rare, 
indeed, for even a single porter to refuse to go on with his 
load, although they nearly always got their feet swollen and 
hurt by the stones. 
Once only, on returning from Bujongolo after a few days 
of hard service In the mountains, ten of them deserted because 
it was not possible to dismiss them, as they desired. The law 
of Uganda does not permit native porters to abandon a caravan 
conducted by whites until they have finished the time or 
traversed the distance for which they have engaged themselves. 
It came out afterwards that the deserters had been instigated 
by a native convert of the plain, the one and only Baganda 
who had been willing to follow the caravan as far as the 
mountains. Notwithstanding the cold and the bad weather, 
they ran away stark naked, after honestly depositing their 
warm clothes and blankets near one of the tents. During: 
the sojourn of the expedition at Bujongolo, a certain number 
of natives got bronchitis and coughs and were sent down. 
One got his feet frostbitten and was carried as far as Fort 
Portal to the hospital. 
Poor Igini, the cook, had the hardest life of all. He 
was the only one whose activity was confined within the 
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