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sections, however, proved to be much too heavy to be carried, even by four men, and had to be further subdivided. This boat, the Daisy, was intended for a steam-launch, and was fitted with twin screws, but her boiler was too heavy to transport, with the limited number of men at our disposal, and so it was left at Bagamoyo.

As might be expected after an overland journey of eight hundred miles, the sections of the Daisy arrived at Kagei in a somewhat battered condition, and when we first came to examine her it seemed an almost hopeless task to make her seaworthy; however there was no alternative except to build a new boat altogether, so the native carpenters were set to work under O'NeiU's direction, and in a few weeks the little craft seemed in a fair way to become a sound, useful boat. As originally built, she was forty-three feet long over all, six feet wide, and four feet deep, and had three sections, but we cut six feet out of the middle section, for, as sent out, she was too long and narrow to encounter the stormy seas of the Nyanza ; we also added another six inches of height to her gunwale, and fitted her with three lug-sails. It soon, however, became clear that, however well the Daisy might do for light work, she would never be strong enough to carry cargo of any weight ; so it was proposed that we should buy the dhow which Songoro was building at Ukerewe, and which he was willing to