52 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

Foweira. One night some got into the hut next to mine, and I was thankful that I escaped a visit, the door of my hnt having heen left open. In one night my sentry wounded a lion and shot two leopards. A short time before I arrived at Foweira, two soldiers and several women had been carried off by a crocodile, and many attempts had been made to shoot him, bnt without success. So I watched for several nights, as he usually made his appearance about sunset, probably knowing that the women would be drawing water at that time. I saw him one night, but unluckily my gun missed fire ; however, the next night I was successful, and managed to put a bullet in him at about fifteen yards, thus ending his cruel career. It is always best to shoot at crocodiles coming out of the water, then they cannot turn away so quickly. When out of the water basking in the sun, they usually lie with their heads towards the river, and then, if shot, they generally manage to escape before life is quite extinct. Hardened bullets should be used in crocodile shooting ; the usual Snider bullets are too soft to do them much damage.

I was told at Foweira that near Masindi there is a high hill, and at the top a lake with no bottom to it ; this would seem to indicate that it is an extinct volcano. I could not find out that there was even a tradition of volcanic action having existed, which, if my supposition is correct, is strange.