204 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

victorious and a retreat become necessary. The canoes are apportioned out to various chiefs, under whose command they fight, the whole being under the chief admiral of Uganda. The present admiral is called Gabunga, and has a magnificent establishment on the mainland between Murchison Bay and the Katonga river. The canoes are made in the UGANDA CANOE AND FISH-TRAP.

following manner : A long straight trunk of a tree is taken and adzed to the shape of the bottom of the vessel, and then carefully hollowed out down the middle ; it is tapered off at both ends, and at the bow a sort of horn is formed which projects some three or four feet beyond the cutwater when the canoe is finished, and a number of small holes are bored with