260 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

it, two months later, it had contracted to 300 yards), it was five and a half feet deep in the middle, choked with grass and papyrus, and had no perceptible current, but, judging by the marks on its banks and the general slope of the country, I feel convined that it drains into the Kafur.

,.-FOURTH CAMP FROM MRULI, WITH THE MKOXO HILLS IX THE DISTANCE.

Two tall young fellows offered to carry me across, and I consented ; but, the water coming up to their mouths, I got so wet that, like the Irishman in the sedan-chair without a bottom, I might just as well have walked, but for the appearance of the thing. We left the Ergugu after crossing, but struck it