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visiting Dr. Emm was the fear that I should send letters through him to Colonel Gordon, and this I afterwards found was the case, and the reason of hurrying me off in this way was to prevent me returning home to get any letters which I might have written. However, I was prepared for this, and having written niy letters the previous evening, had brought them with me. I found Dr. Ernin living in a nice hut on the road to Nabulagalla, Mtesa's other capital, and about two miles from Eubaga. He welcomed me very warmly, and I spent the greater part of the day with him, exchanging notes with him and receiving much valuable information. On leaving, Dr. Emin gave me a number of medicines of which I was in great need, for the small stock which I had brought with me from Kagei had long been exhausted under the frequent demands made upon it by the natives ; he also gave me a quantity of tea, soup, spices and other good things, and last, but not least, a bundle of English newspapers. I in return gave him some objects of natural history and a copy of my meteorological observations during the six months I had been in Uganda. I also entrusted a packet of letters to the Doctor, choosing a moment when all Mtesa's men had left the hut to slip them into a box. I had made it a rule always to have two or three letters begun, so that should an opportunity of sending a mail occur, I might have something ready to send at a moment's notice.