are towed to primitive jetties, alongside which lies the goods yard of the Uganda Railway. Judging by the size of this goods yard it is evident that a large amount of traffic is handled at this port; as further evidence, in addition to the "Comrie Castle" there were five other large vessels stood off in the river taking in and putting off cargo, all of course by black labour. Our draft did not actually go ashore until the Monday morning. Once ashore we were very busily engaged in getting things ready for our departure into the interior and commenced our journey by train early in the afternoon. The scenery through which we passed for the first two or three hours is quite beyond description to anyone but a gifted writer, the nearest comparison I can give being the Lake District in England, but the mountains at the mouth of the Maumandi River, which forms itself into a number of large lakes, are much higher and more majestic than those in the Lake District. Gradually the line began to ascend and we eventually lost sight of the river and lakes. At 5.30 we stopped for about an hour at a little wayside station, where we were made a very good tea of biscuits and jam. After tea it quickly drew dark and we continued our journey until 11.30 pm when we reached a large railway junction, where we were able to obtain tea, coffee and buns from the YMCA hut on the station. When we had had our refreshments the train was put into a siding and we endeavored to snatch a little sleep before continuing our journey. At five o'clock the following morning we set off again, eventually reaching our base camp at 10.30 the same morning; then commenced the task of pitching our camp and we were very busily engaged until dusk, by which time we had got things into shipshape order and were ready for a good night's rest. Our tents were mostly of the bivouac style, each accomodating eight to ten men; each man was served out with a ground sheet and a good blanket and for the first time in the experience of most, had to sleep on the ground; this did not inconvenience me personally as I had slept on the deck all the way from England, with the exception of one or two wet nights. Our base camp was situated on the highest portion of the Mbuni Plain, a district well known to big-game hunters, where I am told President Roosevelt commenced his famous big-game expedition some years ago. Above and to the north of the camp is a wood at the top of which are two small hills; on the east is a magnificent range of mountains which make a very impressive picture, the colour of them seeming to vary so wonderfully in the different lights that play upon them at different times of the day. Away to the south, twenty to thirty miles over the plain another mountain range stretches; the plain between the mountains and the camp is so vast that it looks more like the sea, being at times quite blue in appearance. To the west is another range, behind which to the north west can occasionally be seen the snow- capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa; it is about forty miles distant and is usually seen to best advantage at sunrise. At this camp we had a very good time indded, and did not find it unduly hot as it is at a higher altitude; in fact, the weather while we were there was very much like what we get in England in September - not too hot during the day, and just a slight nip in the air at night. Before breakfast we usually had half an hour's Swedish Drill, then after breakfast about an hours drill on the parade ground; apart from occasional fatigues and guards this constituted the day's work. In place of the Swedish Drill many men had to do fatigues in connection with the cook-house - fetching fuel, water, rations and so forth. The most popular fatigue was that of fetching in the timber, a party of about two dozen men, of which I was one, set off into the wood armed with axes and cross-cut saws and cut down suitable trees which we carried or dragged back to the camp. 5

are towed to primitive jetties, alongside which lies the goods yard of the Uganda Railway. Judging by the size of this goods yard it is evident that a large amount of traffic is handled at this port; as further evidence, in addition to the "Comrie Castle" there were five other large vessels stood off in the river taking in and putting off cargo, all of course by black labour. Our draft did not actually go ashore until the Monday morning. Once ashore we were very busily engaged in getting things ready for our departure into the interior and commenced our journey by train early in the afternoon. The scenery through which we passed for the first two or three hours is quite beyond description to anyone but a gifted writer, the nearest comparison I can give being the Lake District in England, but the mountains at the mouth of the Maumandi River, which forms itself into a number of large lakes, are much higher and more majestic than those in the Lake District. Gradually the line began to ascend and we eventually lost sight of the river and lakes. At 5.30 we stopped for about an hour at a little wayside station, where we were made a very good tea of biscuits and jam. After tea it quickly drew dark and we continued our journey until 11.30 pm when we reached a large railway junction, where we were able to obtain tea, coffee and buns from the YMCA hut on the station. When we had had our refreshments the train was put into a siding and we endeavored to snatch a little sleep before continuing our journey. At five o'clock the following morning we set off again, eventually reaching our base camp at 10.30 the same morning; then commenced the task of pitching our camp and we were very busily engaged until dusk, by which time we had got things into shipshape order and were ready for a good night's rest. Our tents were mostly of the bivouac style, each accomodating eight to ten men; each man was served out with a ground sheet and a good blanket and for the first time in the experience of most, had to sleep on the ground; this did not inconvenience me personally as I had slept on the deck all the way from England, with the exception of one or two wet nights. Our base camp was situated on the highest portion of the Mbuni Plain, a district well known to big-game hunters, where I am told President Roosevelt commenced his famous big-game expedition some years ago. Above and to the north of the camp is a wood at the top of which are two small hills; on the east is a magnificent range of mountains which make a very impressive picture, the colour of them seeming to vary so wonderfully in the different lights that play upon them at different times of the day. Away to the south, twenty to thirty miles over the plain another mountain range stretches; the plain between the mountains and the camp is so vast that it looks more like the sea, being at times quite blue in appearance. To the west is another range, behind which to the north west can occasionally be seen the snow- capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa; it is about forty miles distant and is usually seen to best advantage at sunrise. At this camp we had a very good time indded, and did not find it unduly hot as it is at a higher altitude; in fact, the weather while we were there was very much like what we get in England in September - not too hot during the day, and just a slight nip in the air at night. Before breakfast we usually had half an hour's Swedish Drill, then after breakfast about an hours drill on the parade ground; apart from occasional fatigues and guards this constituted the day's work. In place of the Swedish Drill many men had to do fatigues in connection with the cook-house - fetching fuel, water, rations and so forth. The most popular fatigue was that of fetching in the timber, a party of about two dozen men, of which I was one, set off into the wood armed with axes and cross-cut saws and cut down suitable trees which we carried or dragged back to the camp. 5

are towed to primitive jetties, alongside which lies the goods yard of the Uganda Railway. Judging by the size of this goods yard it is evident that a large amount of traffic is handled at this port; as further evidence, in addition to the "Comrie Castle" there were five other large vessels stood off in the river taking in and putting off cargo, all of course by black labour. Our draft did not actually go ashore until the Monday morning. Once ashore we were very busily engaged in getting things ready for our departure into the interior and commenced our journey by train early in the afternoon. The scenery through which we passed for the first two or three hours is quite beyond description to anyone but a gifted writer, the nearest comparison I can give being the Lake District in England, but the mountains at the mouth of the Maumandi River, which forms itself into a number of large lakes, are much higher and more majestic than those in the Lake District. Gradually the line began to ascend and we eventually lost sight of the river and lakes. At 5.30 we stopped for about an hour at a little wayside station, where we were made a very good tea of biscuits and jam. After tea it quickly drew dark and we continued our journey until 11.30 pm when we reached a large railway junction, where we were able to obtain tea, coffee and buns from the YMCA hut on the station. When we had had our refreshments the train was put into a siding and we endeavored to snatch a little sleep before continuing our journey. At five o'clock the following morning we set off again, eventually reaching our base camp at 10.30 the same morning; then commenced the task of pitching our camp and we were very busily engaged until dusk, by which time we had got things into shipshape order and were ready for a good night's rest. Our tents were mostly of the bivouac style, each accomodating eight to ten men; each man was served out with a ground sheet and a good blanket and for the first time in the experience of most, had to sleep on the ground; this did not inconvenience me personally as I had slept on the deck all the way from England, with the exception of one or two wet nights. Our base camp was situated on the highest portion of the Mbuni Plain, a district well known to big-game hunters, where I am told President Roosevelt commenced his famous big-game expedition some years ago. Above and to the north of the camp is a wood at the top of which are two small hills; on the east is a magnificent range of mountains which make a very impressive picture, the colour of them seeming to vary so wonderfully in the different lights that play upon them at different times of the day. Away to the south, twenty to thirty miles over the plain another mountain range stretches; the plain between the mountains and the camp is so vast that it looks more like the sea, being at times quite blue in appearance. To the west is another range, behind which to the north west can occasionally be seen the snow- capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa; it is about forty miles distant and is usually seen to best advantage at sunrise. At this camp we had a very good time indded, and did not find it unduly hot as it is at a higher altitude; in fact, the weather while we were there was very much like what we get in England in September - not too hot during the day, and just a slight nip in the air at night. Before breakfast we usually had half an hour's Swedish Drill, then after breakfast about an hours drill on the parade ground; apart from occasional fatigues and guards this constituted the day's work. In place of the Swedish Drill many men had to do fatigues in connection with the cook-house - fetching fuel, water, rations and so forth. The most popular fatigue was that of fetching in the timber, a party of about two dozen men, of which I was one, set off into the wood armed with axes and cross-cut saws and cut down suitable trees which we carried or ddragged back to the camp. 5

are towed to primitive jetties, alongside which lies the goods yard of the Uganda Railway. Judging by the size of this goods yard it is evident that a large amount of traffic is handled at this port; as further evidence, in addition to the "Comrie Castle" there were five other large vessels stood off in the river taking in and putting off cargo, all of course by black labour. Our draft did not actually go ashore until the Monday morning. Once ashore we were very busily engaged in getting things ready for our departure into the interior and commenced our journey by train early in the afternoon. The scenery through which we passed for the first two or three hourse is quite beyond description to anyone but a gifted writer, the nearest comparison I can give being the Lake District in England, but the mountains at the mouth of the Maumandi River, which forms itself into a number of large lakes, are much higher and more majestic than those in the Lake District. Gradually the line began to ascend and we eventually lost sight of the river and lakes.