228 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

CHAPTEE IX.

VOYAGE TO KAGEI AND SHIPWRECK.

BUT to resume the narrative. I remained in Uganda, working at the language, which I was now beginning to speak well, until the beginning of June, when, having heard no further news from the South, and calculating that the caravan which Mackay had talked of sending up to Kagei ought soon to be reaching that place, I decided to go and meet it. The Daisy was at Kagei, having been taken there by the Wang'uana when they left me, so I was obliged to have recourse to the native mode of travelling.

Accordingly, having obtained a man from Mtesa to procure canoes for me, I left Bubaga on June 14th.

Various delays occurred, and we did not reach the Lake till the 19th, when we crossed over to the island of Busu, which is situated near the entrance to Murchison Bay.

While waiting on the shores of the Lake for the canoes which were to convey me and my party to the island, I saw the most extraordinary swarms of butterflies that I have ever met with. The spot was an open glade in the forest, which here came down