84 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

a picture of quietness and neatness. I went ashore to the site of Baker's camp, the earthworks of which now only remain ; I also visited poor Mr. Higginbotham's tomb, and the graves of numbers of the devoted Eoman Catholic missionaries who came here only to die. Nothing now marks the spot except the ruins of their church and the celebrated grove of lemon-trees, from which lemons are spreading over the whole of the Equatorial Provinces, to the refreshment of all thirsty Europeans. I must confess a deep sadness came over me as I thought of the toils and sufferings of those good men, who, though seeing no result to their labour, and weakened by sickness and depressed by the deaths of so many of their comrades, so nobly remained at their post. It was not until they lost twenty-six men in one year that the survivors were induced to leave their station and retire to Khartoum. Many valuable lessons may be learnt from their sad fate.