ENTER THE LAKE. 163 bank is flatter, and is covered with short grass and planted with a few trees; it is, in fact, of the true savannah type. Kverywhere there were large herds of antelopes, and very frequently a troop of elephants appeared on their way to pasture or to get water. The banks seldom rise more than a foot and a half above the surface of the stream. Immediately behind the fringe of bushes that line the banks, were the durrah-fields of the sparse native population, to guard which numerous watch-huts have been erected. ‘The harvest, in consequence of continued drought and want of rain, did not look very promising.

Shortly after noon we passed the village of Fanigoro, belonging to the chief Okello, which gives its name to this particular district. The village, consisting of scattered groups of huts, generally erected under the shade of a few clumps of trees, is spread over the upper slopes of the western hill-range. Numerous huts appeared also on the east of the river. The inhabitants are Aluri, together with Shifalu-Wanyoro, who, under their chief Amara, migrated hither in 1879, when we abandoned our station at Magtngo. Both languages—Liur and Kinyéro—are consequently spoken here.

A short distance to the south of Fanigoro, the principal mountain range on the west of the lake approaches considerably nearer, and splits into two distinct parallel chains, the nearer one being lower than the more remote one; the latter, however, as it trends away towards the south, is frequently screened from sight by the former. The eastern bank of the riverbed now receded farther and farther towards the south-east, for the course which the river takes is slightly towards the west. At 2.30 P.M. we saw the extreme point of the right margin of the river; thence it recedes eastwards to the mouth of the stream which reaches the lake from Magungo.

Entering the lake, we were met by masses of drifting Pistia rosettes. We hugged the western shore, and soon reached the district of the chief Boki, and his village, which bears the name of Fanyumori. Seen from a distance, this village has a very inviting appearance. Along the foot of the somewhat lofty hills, which bear on their slopes numerous huts constructed in the Magungo style, is a broad low-lying tract, covered with short, succulent green grass, and having several groves of fine