84 UGANDA AND THE EGYPTIAN SOUDAN.

white rocks broke the monotony of its azure surface ; from our feet the ground sloped rapidly down to the shore, clothed with a brilliant emerald carpet of young corn ; fringing the lake was a belt of banana plants, and large fig trees, from which the conical roofs of houses peeped out, and their wreaths of blue smoke curling up into the calm air showed the KAGEI FBOJI BEHIND THE VILLAGE.

presence of man ; the murmur of the waves on the strand stole softly to our ears, and over all was a sky, the deep rich blue of which Italy could scarcely equal. Our approach was soon made known to the villagers by firing, blowing of horns, and all manner ot unearthly noises, and they turned out in crowds to meet us. On nearing the village the chief Kaduma, a tall and rather good-looking man,