CHAPTER VI 



A TOUR OF INVESTIGATION AMONG THE 

 NORTHERN ISLANDS 



The tour now to be described was made with Fiske at 

 the commencement of 1914, its object being a comparative 

 investigation of the chain of islands lying parallel to the 

 north coast of the lake, so far as could be done from 

 Entebbe as a source of food supply. 



Besides our two selves and our four servants there 

 were thirty-nine canoe men, nine fly boys, and a minor 

 chief to act as headman, with his attendant. All these, 

 with belongings, were stowed away in two large canoes 

 and a small one holding five or six men only, which we 

 subsequently found very useful. We left Entebbe at 

 9*15 p.m. on January 12th, having chosen the night time 

 because of the high wind during the day, which would 

 have made heavy work of paddling with well-laden 

 canoes. It was a beautifully calm moonlight night, and 

 we reached BuLAGO at 2-15 a.m., and pitched camp there, 

 as it was to be our base for some days. This is an 

 interesting island of curious shape, having a long forest 

 clad peninsula jutting out from the north-east corner, 

 and a large bay on the north shore, along which is a belt 

 of forest. The east coast is almost bare of trees or bushes, 

 the west has a fringe of bush, and the south point ends 

 in a sand-spit, much to the liking of crocodiles. Open 

 grass land forms the centre of the island, and rather on 

 the western side two rounded hills rise a couple of hundred 

 feet. 



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