being 500 yards | but nevertheless a bullet went through
her, and was afterwards brought by the Wasoga nicely
folded up in a piece of mbhgu. Bombay then shot a
sleeping crocodile with his carbine, whilst I spent the day
out watching the falls.
This day also I spent watching the fish flying at the
Ripon Falls, falls, and felt as if I only wanted a wife and
family, garden and yacht, rifle and rod, to.
make me happy here for life, so charming was the place.
What a place, I thought to myself, this would be for
missionaries ! They never could fear starvation, the land
is so rich • and, if farming were introduced by them, they
might have hundreds of pupils. I need say no more.
In addition to the rod-and-line fishing, a number of
men, armed with long heavy poles with two iron spikes,
tied prong-fashion to one end, rushed to a place over a
break in the falls, which, tired fish seemed to use as a
baiting-room, dashed in their forks, holding on by the
shaft, and sent men down to disengage the pinned fish
and relieve their spears. The shot they make in this
manner is a blind one—only on the chance of fish being
there—and therefore always doubtful in its result.
Church Estate again. As the clouds and Kasoro’s wil-
Retum, 31,(. fulness were still against me, and the weather
did not give hopes of a change, I sacrificed
the taking of the latitude to gain time. I sent Bombay
with Kasoro to the palace, asking for the Sakibobo himself
to be sent with an order for five boats, five cows, and
five goats, and also for a general order to go where I like,
and do what I like, and have fish supplied me; “ for,
though I know the king likes me, his officers do not;”
and then on separating I retraced my steps to the Church
Estate.
To-day, after marching an hour, as there was now
no need for hurrying, and a fine pongo buck, the Ngubbi
of Uganda, offered a tempting shot, I proposed to shoot
i f !