UZONaORA AND THE NYANZA. 247 the bushes which grew on its margin crept the lovely Lygodium scandens, a climbing fern which covered the small trees and bushes with graceful, wavy masses of pale green foliage. I clambered once up the rugged face of the cliff, and was well repaid for the toil. From my feet the grassy plain stretched away to the blue Lake, the course of a stream being marked by a winding ribbon of brilliant green ; large herds of cattle, dwarfed by the distance to mere specks, roamed about ; the village of Makongo, with its picturesque huts peeping out of a forest of bananas, was visible fringing the shores of the Nyanza far away on the right ; and on the distant horizon the outline of Alice Island could be distinguished. On either hand stretched the undulating surface of the downs, varied by plantain groves and patches of verdant corn. The noise of life and the murmur of the brook were both silenced at the height at which I stood, and the calm was only broken by the twitter of the gorgeous sun-birds as they flitted from flower to flower.

This part of Uzongora is densely populated, the people living in large villages of huts very similar to those of the Waganda, and surrounded by immense groves of bananas. They possess considerable herds of long-horned cattle, and frequently brought butter for sale to our camp, but we could never induce them to let us have milk. In physique the Wazon-