FAREWELL TO UGANDA. 261 again next day, and camped on its banks. At this, our third camp in the jungle, a snake "was killed just outside my hut ; it was coiled up in a tuft of grass which a boy sat down on, and out it wriggled to his great horror. Our journey the next day took us along the banks of the Ergugu, which had now widened to a huge swamp, sometimes three miles in breadth. This part of the country is a no-man's land, and fights not unfrequently take place here between the Waganda and Wanyoro, as the road leading from the settlements of the latter, on the east of the Nile, to Unyoro just at this point crosses the road from Mruli to Uganda. The forest about h'ere seemed alive with game ; numbers of gazelles and larger antelopes were seen ; and one, of a species called by the Waganda " ngubbi," tried to break through the caravan, but was speared by the porters. The soft muddy ground was full of the tracks of rhinoceros, buffalo, and elephant, and we crossed a broad, well-trodden road made by the latter in coming down to drink; while lions, leopards and hyasnas kept up a concert round our camp all night. On the following march, after leaving the Ergugu, we saw large quantities of guinea-fowl, which were, however, very wild; I dropped one at sixty yards, but lost it in the long grass. On nearing the camp, I saw two elands standing under a tree not one hundred yards from the road ; I signed to rny gunbearer to give me my rifle, and was just raising it to