Circu innavigation Completed.

able, but at nine it became freslier and gradually ffrew so stronof that T did not know liow to trim the sails. At midnight it was no longer a thunderstorm, but such a hurricane as seldom burst over the lake. I confess that never in my life had I found myself in more serious danger on the water. The boats proved good sailers, but it was all we could do to keep them from filling with water.

Towards half-past twelve the wind changed from west to north-west ; the lake became really furious, and we ran before the gale for five consecutive hours. At half -past five the wind, more violent than ever, turned to the south-east. For a moment we were in great terror, expecting to be swallowed up by the waves. Reefing the sails close, we tried to gain the shore, but all was in vain, the mountains descended perpendicularly to the water, and the waves broke upon the rocks with incredible force.

It was at seven next morning that, the wind veering to the south, we could steer northwards. At five in the evening we were off Magungo, and at eight within the river.

Aiynl 21s. — To give an idea of the rapidity with which I had gone from one end of Lake Albert to the other, it must be remembered that setting out at ten in the morning of the 20th I had sailed to eight p.m. of the next day, a distance of one hundred and thirtyfive miles ; adding to Avhicli the fifty miles made in vain, and another twenty in the river, we have a total of two hundred and five miles in thirty-five hours.

The greatest breadth of the lake I take to be sixty miles. From port Shubra at the east till its extreme southern limit, the shores are formed of an uninterrupted mountain chain descending abruptly into the lake. On the opposite shore the mountains continue as far as the point at which the river flowing from the south discharges itself through the gorge into the lake.