124 Seven Years in the Soudan.

April otJi. — I left the islands iit half-past six in the morning. Very little wind, but the lake was still troubled, by reason of the wind on the previous night. We passed before a low land, in parts covered with bush and of easy access. 1 remarked a large village with an immense number of oxen and other cattle. Six miles inland we descried the Bisso mountains, which close in the lake ; their average height is about a thousand feet.

At two o'clock we took refuge from a gust of Avind near a floating island. On a little islet there were about thirty liuts, abandoned a few minutes before by the natives at our approacli. The men of the crew found some fowls and a few pieces of cord. Two hours afterAvards the natives returned ; they graduall} came nearer, crying " Anfina, Anfina." I presented them with glass beads in exchange for the foAvls Ave had eaten, and gave them back the cords, saying there AA-as no reason to fly at the ap})roach of a vessel of the Government. They returned in fact to their habitations, protesting that they aa ouM have nothing more to do Avith Kaba Rega, and that they recognized the authority of Anfina.

Rain and bad Aveather ; but Ave made six miles.

April ]4tJ(. — I awakened my creAV at tAA O o'clock, just as the moon was rising, desiring to pass unobserAed the hostile posts of Kaba Rega, and visit the cascades marked on Sir Samuel Baker's map. The Aveather had turned rainy, and in the distance flashes of lightning Avere seen, while the thunder roared. We travelled all day, making thirty-two miles ; Ave passed the territory of Kaba Rega, but his troops disappeared at our approach. Wind all day.

The mountains forming the shore are precipitous, Avith scanty vegetation. The Avater is deep almost close to the banks. [ observed a torrent descending from the mountains in the form of a cascade, from a height of three hundred and fifty feet. The natives