ABSTRACT
It had long been my custom to take on with me in advance a set of sticks, with blue, white, or red bits of cloth attached to them as flags. These marked the place for each of our tents, while the Company's flag indicated the stack for the loads, so that each porter could, on arrival, at once deposit his load at the right place, and go off to look after his own wants. Larger flags marked the four corners of the camp and the respective faces occupied by the little tents of the Sudanese and the " Levy," while variegated flags of sorts were placed by me in the enclosed space at intervals, round each of which the porters under that headman whose flag it was, grouped themselves as they pleased. The result was an orderly camp, a great rapidity in putting up the tents and their belongings, and in stacking the loads and preventing quarrelling, &c. Ever since I had lost the man in Unyoro at the Mohammedan war, I had requested the doctor to personally take charge of the sick on the march, and had held him responsible for them, so that none could hide in the bush and get lost.
