Wadelai and the Month of the Albert Lake. 107 cult to see, T sent all the crew on shore betimes next morning, in order to be able to rid the boats of the water from the torrents of rain ; the masts of the boats were then jjut in their places, and by six p.m. all was in order, and the crew at their posts.

The brother of Wadelai arrived two hours aftsrwards with a goat, some eggs, bananas, etc., and announced the promised visit to me for the afternoon. Time pressed, but it was necessary to be patient, and bend to the caprices of this man. Nevertheless, the increasing number of natives appeared strange, as from thirty they had become several hundred ; the plain was swarming with them. I had no difficulty in recognizing among these people several faces which I had seen in the seribes visited by me on a preceding journey. What were these people doing here ? Perhaps they had come to defend Wadelai P It was certainly not from mere curiosity, having seen U3 more than once already.

Wadelai's brother asked me for presents. T contented him with various articles, an axe, copper wire, and some rattles ; and I learnt from him that AYadelai, though a powerful chief, was the vassal of Kaba Rega, the King of Unyoro. AVadelai gave up to Kaba Rega all the ivory he collected ; five or six times in the year it Avas sent, and each time two or three hundred bearers were necessary. Kaba Rega has now his habitation in an island, from whence he directs his affairs ; all this was related to me by the interpreter, but I could not make out the name of the island, and was impatient to converse with Wadelai, from whom I flattered myself I should obtain ampler and more precise information.

At length at noon an old native appeared, clothed in cotton dyed red, and followed by an escort of three hundred men. I thought at first he was the chief, but then, remembering that Wadelai had been described to me as tall and stout, I understood immediately that this was only a messenger. He pre-