ARRIVAL AT MAGUNGO. 15 also very abundant here. Our brave steamer forced its way through the plant barriers and sandbanks. Large numbers of fishing-boats, some of which would hold five or six persons, paddled about among the islands. An immense number of contrivances for catching fish covered both banks of the slowly flowing but broad and deep river. On either bank, beautiful woods, in which Doléb palms were occasionally seen,alternated with open places which permitted a good view of hilly country. For about five miles we proceeded up-stream, keeping always to the northern bank of the river, where the current is stronger and the water deeper, until at last we reached the station of Macungo, situated on the south bank of the river, from which place we were destined to commence our land journey. | The necessary stay here to procure porters was most welcome to me. My ethnological collection grew visibly, and I was able to obtain much information about the Lur or Luri. The country belonging to this tribe lies, as I have already indicated, between Wadelai and the mountains which skirt the western coast of the Albert Lake, including the mountains, and stretching far towards the west and south-west. Fine woods cover the country, in which are found in abundance most of the animals that exist in other parts of Central Africa (I procured skins of the Colobus G'uereza). There is said to be a considerable river a few days’ journey distant towards the west or north-west. All the utensils, ornaments, and arms betoken proximity to the Nyam-Nyam. But I obtained also many cinctures ornamented with cowrie shells (Cyprea moneta), which I suppose were imported from here. Lir, indeed, is subject to Kabréga, and intercourse between here and there is very frequent owing to the facility of navigation. When I made inquiries—I use the Waganda language, which I learnt in the beginning of the year, and which many of the people understand—about the origin of the cowrie shells, which are so abundant, and so much prized in Unyoro and Uganda (4500 cowries = an ox at Kabréga’s), I was assured most positively by the natives that all such shells in Unyoro came into the country from Uganda, and that they were brought there by people from the south. It is certain that people have never come to the _ Albert Lake from the south for purposes of trade. LHvery