SUAKIM TO DUFLL 285 CHAPTER I.

SUAKIM TO DUFLI.

A SHORT account of my journey to Uganda is necessary before I begin my description of our homeward travels. I shall merely give a resume of our journey up the Nile as far as Dufli, that portion of the distance having already been described by other writers. The route from Dufli to Foweira, via the Albert Lake and Keroto, which is to a great extent new ground to English readers, merits a more detailed account.

In the spring of 1878, the Church Missionary Society received news of the loss of two of the members of their expedition to the Victoria Nyanza ; Lieutenant Shergold Smith and Mr. O'Neill had been massacred by Lukonge, king of Ukerewe, and this disaster had left Mr. Wilson alone in Uganda. To strengthen his hands, the Church Missionary Society, in addition to ordering up a reinforcement from the South, determined to send a new party by