AND THE VICTORIA NYANZA 



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absolutely regular outline (which is that of a funnel placed on its broad 

 end and tapering up to a sharp apex) I cannot guess. 



The Karaniojo country has lately been suffering from that drought 

 which has atilicted all Xorth-East Africa. But the rainfall of tin's counh-y 

 appears never to be very abundant, except in the south-east, among the 

 8uk Mountains. Yet there is a considerable amount of cultivation in 

 Southern Karamojo, and in the adjoining but little-known district of 

 Lobor there is a dense population and a good deal of land producing 

 cro})S of native cereals. 



54. LOOKING TOWAKlJS THK PLAINS OF lUKEliI FHO.M WESTERN SLOPES OF ELGON 



In Lobor there is a certain amount of forest along the river banks, 

 and the southward aspect of this country, which lies within the watershed 

 of the A'ictoria Nile, enjoys a fairly good rainfall, and is well clothed with 

 vegetation. 



South of Lobor is the thickly ])0pulated District of Eukedi, which 

 consists mainly of vast }>lains of rich grass and huge swamjjs which 

 border the rivers or which are choking up the lakes that serve as 

 reservoirs and backwaters for the A'ictoria Nile. " Bukedi " is really a 

 Uganda word meaning, as already related, "The Land of Naked People," 

 but it has been found convenient to apply it to this ])articular district, 

 which is inhabited by the Lango and Miro tribes, who differ little in 

 appearance and scarcely at all in language from the Acln)li of the L^pper 

 Nile. Lobor to the north is inhabited partly by people of this stock and 

 partly by tribes speaking languages related to the Masai-Suk family. 



