Nyanza, but which was a horrible drag on the march. The
health of the Europeans of the expedition left much to
be desired. The Colonel and Dr. Moffat were suffering
from ulcerated feet, the result of the attacks of the jiggers.
Arthur was covered with ulcers, Purkiss was just convalescent
from blackwater fever, Owen had a bad leg,
and Villiers, who was to be picked up at Fort Grant,
had been troubled with fever when I last saw him. As
for myself, I still suffered with ulcers on the hands,
and was unable to close them. However, they all went
off in good spirits, and, as everyone now knows, so far
triumphed over their constitutions that the expedition
was completely successful. It was rather heart-breaking
to see everybody go and to remain behind myself; but I
had been in Africa long enough, and was beginning to
feel very played out.
I started for Kampala the next day and camped at
Mukwenda s. I suffered all the time from a violent attack
of fever which quite knocked me over. However, it passed
in the evening, and next day I started, accompanied by
twenty-six Soudanese women and seventeen Lindus, whom
the Colonel was sending back to Kampala. An excellent
road had been made by the chief, which, extraordinary
to relate, did not pass through a single swamp. This
brought me to Kinako, where I found Spire, Colonel
Colvile’s servant, and camped for the night. The
Colonel had been obliged, by the way, to send Spire,
as a European officer, to the station on Lake Victoria
Nyanza to fetch things of various kinds from the south
of the lake, as the Germans refused to let any canoes
leave their shores unless accompanied by a European.
At Kinako I heard news of the Waganda army. It was
going to the front in two divisions—the Protestant and
the Catholic; a very curious result of missionary enterprise
which seemed hardly compatible with complete
military efficiency. The Protestant army, accompanied
by Mr. Pilkington the missionary, was about four or
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