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shores is fantastically rich in palms, forest trees, lianas, flowering creepers, 

 and wild bananas, while the slopes that are not precipitous are covered 

 with cultivated banana plantations and beset with prettv little huts. 

 The waters of these lakes are alive with grebes and ducks, and the 

 sheltered creeks are covered with the blue lotus. 



As the climate on the altitudes that overlook these crater lakes is 



lOO, A CORNER OF A CRATER LAKE 



quite temperate (the surroundings are touchingly home-like with their 

 bracken, their daisies, and their brambles), and as the greater part of this 

 country is at present without native inhabitants, one may dare to hope 

 that a smaller repetition of the great white colony of Nandi may be 

 founded in North-West Ankole. Nowhere in the whole Protectorate is 

 the scenery more continuously alluring, while the climate lacks that 

 touch of damp and chilliness which occasionally dims the perfection 

 of Nandi. Here, too, you have every mile or so a running stream of 



