FAREWELL TO UGANDA. 277 jungle-covered country with villages at long intervals. The tracks of elephants were very numerous about here, and in several places the gardens had been laid waste by them. For the elephant is a very mischievous animal, destroying trees and plants, apparently for the mere pleasure of doing so, and the track of a herd of these creatures can often be traced through the forest merely by the shrubs torn up by the roots and the huge boughs broken off the trees.

On the 30th of June we entered the real jungle, stopping for the night at an old camp on the edge of the valley of the Ergugu. There were numbers of guinea-fowl about here, and about sunset, being short of meat, I took my gun, and in a few minutes bagged a brace of splendid birds. Next day, July 1st, we crossed the Ergugu, which was rather fuller than when I last saw it in February, and the banks showed that it had been higher a short time previously. We were six days in getting through the jungle, following precisely the same route as before. At our last camp, one of the porters, while gathering fire-wood, came upon a young leopard, which he killed and brought to camp. On July 5th I reached Mruli, and was taken to my old quarters in the government divan. I found letters here from Felkin, saying that he had gone on to Foweira, and asking me to send word on at once of my arrival, and to wait for a reply, as he was expecting shortly to hear from Dr.