VOYAGE TO KAGEI AND SHIPWRECK. 239 which they consider great delicacies, but they had such a powerful odour that I could not bring myself to eat them.

The next two or three days were spent among the Kome group, going from island to island, passing here and there low ridges of rock rising up out of the Lake, often far away from land.

On August 8th we stopped the night on a small island at the entrance to Jordan's Nullah, off the coast of Uzinja. The following day we started early, wishing to reach Kagei before night. It was very foggy, and we lost our way, finding ourselves at length off the coast of Urima, far down Jordan's Nullah. However, turning the canoes in the right direction, we kept along close in shore, passing Grreat and Little Mwanza. At the latter place the Waganda, attracted by the herds of cattle grazing near the beach, wanted to land and seize some of them, and it was with the utmost difficulty that I prevented them. At length, just as the sun was setting, we came in sight of the familiar Palm Tree Point. The men were tired, and we made but slow progress, so that it was quite dark when we rounded the point, but, guided by the lights in the villages of Kagei, we made for the little cove where we were accustomed to land. These men were new to the place, and, the entrance being difficult to find, I took a seat in the stern, and, paddle in hand, directed the leading canoe, for I knew from long experience every