UGANDA AND THE WAGANDA. 167 Fishing is largely carried on by the islanders, and the Waganda living near the shores of the Lake. The ordinary mode of fishing is with the rod and line. The hooks are generally small, and without barbs, and are made of native iron. The lines, which are very fine and strong, are manufactured from the fibres of a species of aloe. A light reed or cane about ten feet long forms the rod, and fish of from one to four pounds are easily landed with this tackle. The bait used is earth-worms and fresh-water shrimps. Night lines are also employed, the main cord being from 200 to 400 feet in length, with short lines at intervals of about ten feet ; the hooks used for these lines are much larger than those used in rod-fishing, and are curved outwards. Large stones are fastened to the main cord to sink it, and floats of ambatch-wood are attached for the purpose of recovering it. These lines are set from canoes at some distance from shore. Two kinds of fish-traps are employed by the Waganda ; the first consists of large conical wicker baskets about four feet high, and containing near the bottom a ring of twigs radiating inwards, so as to allow the fish to pass in without difficulty, but closing up tight with pressure from within. These baskets, to the number of eight or ten, are tied side by side, and taken out to sea and sunk with stones so placed that the baskets lie on their sides, their mouths facing the shore. After a time they are hauled to land by long