VOYAGE TO KAGEI AND SHIPWRECK. 229 to the water's edge. Countless butterflies of all sizes and every hue of the rainbow were flitting about, and on a marshy spot were what I took to be a number of yellow flowers, but, on approaching them, to my astonishment they rose into the air, a perfect cloud of these insects.

On arriving at Busu, I was taken to one of the villages, and a hut was being prepared for my use, when one of the people came and advised me not to stay in it. " Why ? " I asked. " Oh ! because it has a bad disease in it," was the reply.

" What sort of a disease is it ? " " It makes a person's fingers and toes drop off." Further inquiry showed that it was a sort of leprosy, and the natives assured me that I should probably catch it by sleeping in the infected hut. This may throw some light on the muchdisputed fact mentioned in Leviticus of the leprosy in the house.

This island, in common with most of those forming the Sesse group, was beautifully timbered, and abounded in monkeys and parrots.

The next three weeks were spent in going about from island to island, and occasionally to the mainland, in order to get canoes for the journey. All the different chiefs tried to evade having to provide me with them, as the voyage along the southern shores of the Nyanza is considered a very dangerous one, and is much dreaded by the W T aganda canoemen. When at length we obtained the first instalment