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can see, no prospect of getting home until months after all 

 activities have come to an end. It's not in any way an 

 attractive place, and every one dislikes it. I am in charge 

 of the West African section of the huge carrier hospital here, 

 and shall apparently remain so. I may get some local leave, 

 but no home leave is being given. I arrived here on Jan. 15th 

 after a most enjoyable week visiting Tanganyika, and think 

 the Entomological Society might like to hear something of 

 the lake, so I write this account. 



" Having been relieved of my last job I obtained unofficial 

 leave to be absent for a week, and left Lulanguru at 7 p.m. 

 on Jan. 3rd in a very comfortable, first-class coach, and at 

 daybreak found the train just beginning the descent to 

 Tanganyika, among hills well wooded and interesting, because 

 all the vegetation seemed different from that at Lulanguru 

 and also from that around L. Victoria. I noticed Bamboos 

 and what I took to be giant Lobelias, though of a species 

 different from the one I had met at Kigezi. I saw, before 

 it was really light, some huge dark animal moving away 

 from the railway, which I took to be a Rhino. — the first I 

 have seen. Incidentally also it was the only Mammal I saw 

 on the journey to Kigoma and back from there the whole 

 way to Dar es Salaam, although one night was spent in 

 travelling —rather a remarkable difference from the teeming- 

 herds of game to be seen from the Uganda Railway. Well, 

 as we got nearer I saw the lake in front of and below us, 

 very black and stormy-looking, with the mountains of the 

 other side clearly visible ; on our right, to the north, a rugged 

 range of bare rocky mountains was flooded with golden light 

 from the rising sun, and the whole effect was rather 

 magnificent. 



" We reached Kigoma, which lies at the head of a well- 

 sheltered bay, at 7.30 a.m. on the 4th. Though prettily 

 situated it is not itself a pretty place. The northern coast 

 is formed by low hills covered with green bush, affording a 

 pleasing contrast with red soil and blue water. Most of 

 Kigoma lies on the south side, so that there are no trees or 

 bushes worth mentioning. There are only three large build- 

 ings one a hotel and two Governmenl blocks. At the south 



