252 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

hung out to dry. On the approach of a canoe these rags suddenly hecome animated, and plunge into the water, to reappear fifty or sixty yards off, only the snaky head and neck of the hird being visible for an instant, as it surveys the position of the intruder.

South of the Kagera river we have the high, fertile downs of Uzongora, already described, with deep water close in shore.

Towards the south-west corner of the Lake, barren stony hills, with a scanty growth of stunted thorns and long grass, take the place of the verdant uplands, and long, bare ridges of rock raise their heads a few feet above the surface of the Nyanza, far away from land, forming serious obstacles to navigation, and necessitating a most careful look-out ahead.

The southern coast is broken by bold headlands formed of huge boulders of igneous rock, hoary and weather-beaten with the storms of centuries, but beautifully variegated with patches of a brilliant orange lichen ; between are wide, shallow bays, on whose shores a few villages, inhabited by nearly naked Wazinja and surrounded by banana groves, are to be seen. The western and eastern sides of Jordan's Nullah are of much the same description, having stony hills running down near the coast, while on the eastern side are numerous villages, and large herds of cattle may be seen grazing peacefully on the level alluvial ground between the