Chapter X. 
there were field fires in every direction, which even became 
a source of danger to the camps when the wind blew that 
way. Whole districts were quite bare and covered with 
ashes. 
On the 7th of August, the expedition crossed the frontier 
between Toro and Uganda. Here it was met by Major 
Wyndham. The native porters seemed very impatient to 
get home and marched fast with few halts. The stages were 
differently distributed and the camps were set up in places 
where they had not stopped on the journey up. 
A halt was made at Byndia, as previously at Kichiomi in 
the Kingdom of Toro, for the purpose of making a series of 
magnetic observations. 
On the 14th of August, they at last reached the shores of 
Lake Victoria. The discipline of the caravan had become 
somewhat relaxed during the last days, and at every moment 
there were rows, disputes, and quarrels between the porters. 
They had chosen a more direct route to return, and reached 
the banks of the lake just opposite the extreme end of the 
peninsula upon which Entebbe is situated. Here native canoes 
were ready in sufficient numbers to carry the whole party. 
While the boats were being prepared and loaded, they 
lunched upon the bank of the lake in the shade of lofty 
trees. They reached Entebbe in the early afternoon. 
After a week spent in packing the luggage which was to 
be carried back to Italy, and during which time they were 
entertained with the greatest hospitality and kindness by all 
the European residents, the expedition left Entebbe, with its 
crowd of islands and its flowery shores, upon the steamer 
Sibyl. 
They stopped at Jinja to visit the famous Itipon Falls, which 
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