UZONaOEA AND THE NYANZA. 253 foot of the hills and the Lake. About Kagei the hills recede farther from the shore, diminishing also in height as the mouth of the river Shimiyu is approached. The beach here is rocky, and the bottom stony, with very bad anchorage. The coast about the mouths of the Shimiyu and Euana, at the head of Speke Gulf, is flat, and no hills of any magnitude are found till the bold mass of the Magu Mountains is reached at the northern entrance to the Gulf.

Proceding northwards from here through Eugezi Strait along the eastern shore of the Nyanza, the country is mountainous, the huge Majita Mountain rising steeply from the water to a height of 2000 feet above the Lake, and separated by a magnificent bay from Mount Magu. From this point the coast trends in a N.E. direction, the Majita Mountain being separated from another bold headland by a wide and deep inlet, beyond which my personal knowledge of the Nyanza does not extend.

The islands form an important item in an account of this great inland sea. Starting again from Uganda, we find two or three small islands off the entrance to Murchison Bay, then comes the great Archipelago of Sesse, of which a description has already been given. South of this group (with the exception of two little uninhabited islets in the estuary of the Kagera river) we find on more till we come to the long chain which, beginning