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chagrined at the damage done to my scientific instruments. We immediately set to work to dry the hypsometric instruments and our clothes, and at noon the sun shed on us some beneficent rays.

While the storm was raging my first care had been directed to save all that was necessary for our journey ; after two hours of hard Avork, having emptied it of the sand which had accumulated in the bottom, I had the great pleasure of seeing our vessel afloat again.

On the 30th of March we arrived at Magungo. It was impossible to find a place where we could land — the canals made by the natives are too shallow ; we tried to ascend the river, but met with the same obstacles. We re-descended the three miles we had come and discovered Sir Samuel Baker's landing-place, but it was choked with papja-us. As soon as the natives perceived us, they set up their war-like music, and came to the shore in a concourse of about two thousand. I went in the little boat quite near them, and explained that I. had not come to do them any harm, and that they had nothing to fear from me, but they did not trust me, and would not listen, but drew their arrows. Hardly had I returned on board, than they called me back and invited me to come on shore. I was already on the way when the crew begged me to return, saying that the natives were shooting at me. In fact several of them hidden in the marshy thicket began to take aim at me, and I withdrew just in time.

Having nothing to do on the following day, and wishing to wait till I could put myself in communication with Wad-el-Mek, I determined to make an expedition to Murchison Falls in the hope of finding out the way to a more hospitable village, and discovering the means of sending a message to Wadel-Mek.

On the 1st of April I went to the Falls. The