FAREWELL TO UGANDA. 265 Lake. I quite hoped to find my friends here, but they had not come, nor could I get any definite information as to their whereabouts. So I decided to.

wait for news, at the same time sending off letters to tell them of my arrival at Foweira. The officer in charge of the station, Mohammed Aga by name, with whom I afterwards became great friends, gave me a very pleasant hut outside the fortifications, and commanding a glorious view of the Nile and country beyond. At last, on Christmas Day, according to my reckoning (for I found afterwards that I was a day out), letters came from Pearson and Felkin, saying that they had been delayed by sickness, but were now on their way to join me, via the Albert Lake and Magungo. On January 1st, 1879, I had a note from Pearson, saying they were again delayed at Keroto, three days' journey from Foweira, so, tired of the long delay, I resolved to go and meet them.

The next morning I set out, with three porters, three soldiers, and my servants. Our road led in a W.S.W.

direction through fine forest, with a few sites of deserted villages, marked only by the bananas (now last being choked by the dense vegetation) and figtrees. We spent that night at a small village in the jungle, and the next day reached the village of Kissoona, a few hours from Keroto. I had intended to push on to the latter place, but near Kisuna I was met by Amfina, the chief of this district, who told me that my brothers had left Keroto, and would be