I LEAVE UGANDA. 25

CHAPTEK lY.

KUBAGA TO FOWEIEA.

The circumstances which led to my leaving Uganda

have been already detailed. My original intention

was to go as far as Khartoum, and to return to

Uganda immediately after accomplishing my mission.

The withdrawal of the Egyptian stations from

Unyoro, which took place long before I reached

Khartoum, and other events, prevented me from

carrying out this plan. If I had known that I was

leaving Uganda for so long a time, I should have

felt it far more than I did, for I had become attached

to Mtesa and his people. Short as had been my

stay there, they had endeared themselves to me. On account of intelligence which reached us from

Mruli, it was arranged that I should leave Kubaga

at once, and that Mr. "Wilson should follow me in a

few days, as soon as the arrangements for the de-

parture of tho Waganda envoys should be completed. My packing and farewells had to be got through in

some six or seven hours. There is a law in Uganda

that no stranger shall leave the country without

saying farewell to the judge ; the reason for this

regulation being, that the number and character of