VOYAGE TO KAQEI AKD SHIPWRECK. 235 dazzling white sand affording easy landing-places to my canoes.

We stopped on the night of July 17th, in the district of Keioza. Crowds of people came down to our camp, bringing plenty of provisions for sale.

These Wazongora were decidedly inferior to the Waganda in appearance, and were not so well clothed, the men and women wearing dirty skins .or grass kilts, while the unmarried girls and boys were nearly naked. Their language was very similar to that of Uganda, and I could understand many of their words.

The following day we continued our voyage, the coast being of the same description, only that the downs were higher, and the capes and headlands bolder. Passing Makongo, where Stanley narrowly escaped a fight with the natives, and where, later on in the same year, I spent two months, we landed on a lofty uninhabited island, whose northern face came precipitously down into the Lake. It was on a sloping piece of open ground, on the western side of this island, that we landed, and made a camp, while some of the canoes went over to the mainland to get food. After seeing all my property safely landed, I climbed to the top of the island, hoping to have a good view of the Lake, but found this impossible, as the denseness of the jungle with which the island was clothed almost shut out the daylight. One peculiar feature of this jungle