VOYAGE TO KAGEI AND SHIPWRECK. 243 keep her head to the breakers ; at last, as an unusually large one swept past, the Daisy dipped her bowsprit under the anchor cable, and on her rising again, the bowsprit with its supports and several feet of gunwale on the port bow were carried away, so that the water poured in through the gap with eyery billow. The Waganda whom we had on board were panic-stricken, and, instead of helping to bale out the water, began crying out that they should be drowned. It was no good to remain where we were, the Daisy was fast filling, and must soon have foundered ; so, getting up the anchor, we ran her on shore, leaping out when the water shoaled, and dragging her up as far as we could. But the beach was steep, and we could not get her out of reach of the waves, which stove in many of the planks in the after section, and inflicted terrible damage ' upon her. We then set to work to fish up the cargo, and recovered almost everything, excepting a splendid botanical collection which I had made on my voyage to Kagei, and which was irrecoverably lost. As soon as all was got out of the Daisy, we made tents of oars and sails, and spread out our saturated clothes to dry. In a short time crowds of natives came from the neighbouring villages to see us ; they helped us to haul up the boat, and, on hearing we were hungry, brought us several loads of bananas. Later in the day a chief arrived, bringing a present of a fine bullock, with a message from Keitaba, the king of B 2