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old Said bin Hadj used often to help with his own hand in putting up my tent, and whenever he killed a goat he never omitted to send me a nice joint, though I had little except some tea to give him in return.

The canoes partly coasted along the west shores of the lake, and partly took advantage of the islands, making from one to another, but at sunset we always landed, whether on the coast or on an island, to pitch our tents and to sleep. While encamped on one of these islands, Kyakwogera,* the officer whom Mutesa had sent for me, took all his men off to raid a neighbouring island. He killed the few men whom he found there, slaughtered and cut up the cattle, and put the meat into his boats, and brought away alive the goats and sheep and women and children. When Kyakwogera and his men arrived, they set to work to devour the meat, and what they could not eat they dried over fires. It was pitiable to see how miserably ill they made themselves by sheer over-eating. Consequently, the next day, when we were once more on the lake, only a few of them were able to make any attempt at paddling the great canoe.

Among the prisoners was a little boy whom they called Kazinja. His real name was Kangire. He and his mother were seized and brought away together, and one of my followers purchased him with a coat which he had stolen. When both transactions came to light, we made him hand Kazinja over to the

*He was afterwards killed on the mainland near this very place.