ON THE MARCH. 129 one enters into business relations with them; otherwise they are courteous and friendly. As my men, owing to our long stay at Rubaga, were out of training, I made the first day’s march a short one, and encamped for the night in a large banana wood about two miles to the south of the Kiti mountains, intending there to collect my goods and chattels. By sunset twenty loads had arrived; those, however, which I had sent on in the morning as the least indispensable, such as bedding, cooking utensils, and linen, were all missing. One of Mtésa’s messengers arrived, bringing with him the compliments of his master, and a request for rockets, which, of course, I promised to send later on, and begged him to aid me in getting my missing loads, which I would wait for till the _ following day. I had brought a small number of goats with me from Rubaga, and as bananas were abundant, my men had plenty to eat. The next day we rested, and eight more loads arrived, but what had become of the remainder nobody knew, and Kanagurba, the guide assigned to me, was as disobliging as possible. Late in the evening my ankarebd arrived. As I knew from my former experience of Uganda, that nothing is ever lost there, and that my missing goods would arrive sooner or later, I determined to pursue my way next morning; but I sent Kanagurba back to Rubaga, to try to find my bedding. A rather monotonous march through high grass, occasionally interrupted by plantations, brought us to a group of trees, where, on the bark of a fig-tree, we found the almost obliterated initials of my two predecessors, Colonel Long and E. Linant. From this point many ridges of hills running obliquely across our path had to be crossed; between these ridges there were generally accumulations of rain-water or swamps, which often compelled us to take a circuitous route. The soil is mostly composed of grey clay. We took up our quarters for the night at Buvuma, a little village affording a good view of the high mountains, Bova and Kali, and as no news of our missing goods had arrived, a messenger was sent back to Katikiro. All round the village a good deal of Voandezia was being cultivated ; it is always uniformly coloured red or black, and quickly softens in cooking, whereas the ' variegated harder species found in the Bari country does not I