Peaks at the Head of Mobuku Valley. 
Commander Cagni, who was hastening up the Mobuku 
Valley, had by this time nearly rejoined his comrades, who 
believed him to be still many days’ journey off. 
He had left Entebbe, as we said, on the 5th of June, with 
twenty-five porters, a rickshaw and a horse. In a short time 
he so far recovered his strength and got so perfectly into 
training that he was able to make two, or even four, stages in 
a day. He took advantage of the full moon to leave before 
dawn, and continued the march till late in the day, doing 
25 to 27 miles at a time. The porters, allured by presents 
of a sheep or a little money, performed miracles. Once they 
marched for seventeen hours, covering 32 miles. 
In six days, Cagni reached Toro, where King Kasagama 
showed him every courtesy. He left again in the morning 
of the 12th of June. At Butanuka he found the 178 Baganda 
porters who had been sent back from the Mobuku Valley. 
Following the directions of the Duke, he dismissed a portion 
of them, and sent the others back to Fort Portal, there to 
await the return of the expedition from the mountains. He 
had difficulty in crossing the Wimi River, which had now 
become an impetuous torrent some 50 yards wide, with a 
depth of more than three feet at some points, and he found 
a still more serious obstacle in the Mobuku, swollen by the 
same rains which were imprisoning the expedition at Bujongolo. 
Not having a rope long enough to permit of his stretch¬ 
ing it across the river, as the expedition had done, he tied 
together the halter of his horse, the tent ropes, the cords used 
to tie the loads, etc., doubling them several times, and in this 
way he contrived a rope long enough to cover about half the 
width of the torrent. This he had kept taut across the central 
and swifter part of the current by two groups of men. Thanks 
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