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this district, saying he had heard of our misfortune, and would send men to build huts for us to live in, till we could procure canoes from Uganda to convey us and our property to that country. Two days after, a large number of men arrived, bringing bundles of reeds, sticks and banana-leaves, and in a few hours three huts were built within thirty yards of the Lake. On first examining the Daisy we thought her too much damaged ever to be made seaworthy again, and decided to break her up, meantime sending word to Mtesa of our mishap, and asking him to send canoes to fetch us and our goods to Uganda ; so, having procured a canoe from Makongo, we sent some of the "Waganda whom we had with us with a note to Mtesa. On second thoughts, however, we decided to cut out the middle section of the boat, and, joining the two end ones together (which we found would, with a little contrivance, be possible), use the timbers of the discarded portion to repair the broken planks of the rest. By this plan she would, of course, be much shortened, and her capacity for carrying cargo much diminished, yet, as her length would be better proportioned to her beam, she would, we hoped, be more seaworthy than before.

So, about a week after the wreck took place, Mackay and I set to work upon the boat, aided by a native carpenter from Zanzibar, who had accompanied Mackay as one of his servants.

The whole of September passed, and found the