118 A TOUR AMONG THE ISLANDS 



The old banana plantations bore evidence that monkeys 

 live on YemjData, but thej^ were -not seen. Hippos, of 

 course, visited Yempata, for old plantations are favourite 

 resorts of theirs ; only one crocodile and one Enswa-swa 

 were seen. Nothing is recorded in my journal about the 

 birds of Yempata. Butterflies were numerous, but nothing 

 of particular interest was seen, and in one visit to an island 

 of this size no estimate could be made of their numbers. 

 Nephila spiders were not seen ; Glossina was extremely 

 abundant and as hungry as on Kimmi, and, as at Kimmi, 

 came off to the canoe before we reached the shore. The 

 average for the island was 67-6 per boy-hour ; but for 

 the western beach only the figure was 79-5 ! 



On February 28th I visited Sindieo alone ; an island 

 about the size of Bulago, with a low grassy hill at the 

 north end and a rather flat southern point, the shores 

 all round having a belt of very thick forest coming down 

 like a wall almost to the edge of the water. In front of 

 the forest are thickets of cane, e'tungulu and papyrus, 

 in places so dense that landing was impossible, and we 

 had to go round to the eastern side of the south point ; 

 here w^e found a hippo pathway up which we crept 

 ashore and found ourselves in a large open sandy space, 

 in which were numerous burrows of Enswa-swa, presumably 

 nesting places, as on Kimmi. 



Sindiro proved to be very decidedly a " spider island," 

 and Glossina was represented by an average of 9-2 per boy- 

 hour, in both of which respects this island shows interest- 

 ing di£Eerences from its neighbour Yempata. Cicadas 

 singing on the trees seemed to be more numerous than 

 had been noted on other islands ; of butterflies, the 

 Hesperidae seemed especially numerous in proportion to 

 the rest. 



On March 2nd we moved camp, since food supplies were 

 running low and Wema was too far from Entebbe for 

 conveniently replenishing. So, to my regret, we left 



