FAREWELL TO UGANDA. 257 CHAPTEK X.

FAREWELL TO UGANDA.

MACKAY and I having reached Ntebbi on November the 1st, we waited there two or three days while the news was sent to Mtesa, and then set off for Kubaga, arriving there on the 6th. I introduced Mackay at court, and the king seemed much pleased to see us. He handed over to me a large packet of English newspapers which Dr. Emin had kindly sent me ; they were accompanied by a letter from the Doctor, in which he mentioned that three more men were on their way from England to join us. They were coming by the Nile route, and would, he wrote, soon be at Mruli, the most southerly of the Egyptian stations, and distant by road some 180 miles from ftubaga. This was indeed good news for us, and I began to look forward eagerly to the arrival of our new comrades, Messrs. Litchfield, Pearson and Felkin. When I told the news to Mtesa, he seemed gratified, and on my remarking that we should be the largest party of white men ever seen in his country at one time, he replied, " If twenty more Wazungu (Europeans) were coming, I should be glad."

I received a very warm welcome from my old VOL. i. s