I05 CHAPTER XITI.

WADELAI AND THE JLOUTH OF THE ALBERT LAKH.

Advance by rowing — Xatives — Hospitality — Interpreters — Arrival of Wadelai — Wadelai's brother— Vassal of Kaba Rega — Treason of the false Wadelai — Merissa — River of the Luris — Ferocity of the Luris — Ex-blood-brotlierhood with Wadelai — The Yaco — Crocodile's blood — Hippopotamus meat — Populous shores — Bananas and doom — The Langos — Distrustful natives — Equinoctial hurricanes — Kaba Rega — AVar-ships — Fires — Kaba Rega and ]\[tesa — Letter of Mtesa to Gordon — Hostility — Flight — Mortality in the Unyoro — Hurricane — Foquah and Faigaro.

March IZih. — Set out at five in the morning ; contrary wind from the south-west. The men took the oars ; towards eight o'clock we discovered a village to the left. The inhabitants, very different in this to the Adrus, followed my boat in hundreds ; then, seeing it was not our intention to stop, they began to shout. With the best will in the world I could not make out what they said. Three natives Avitli a boat were able to reach me, and from them I gained the particulars I desired respecting the country of Wadelai.

At ten we stopped at a village situated on the left bank between this and a little brook. We next bartered some articles for chickens and other provisions, and set out again on our journey. Half an hour afterwards we found the way closed. At this point the current has a speed of two miles an hour, and the south wind prevented us from proceeding. After some hours we were again in motion ; we halted at the large village of Adilai, the chief of