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country. There are several small, probably shallow, lakes in 

 this neighbourhood, so that, with the numerous small volcanic 

 hills dotted all about and rising out of them, the scenery is 

 very picturesque. 



" Between Kabale and here it is very hilly country— one goes 

 up and down, up and down, passing to a height of about 

 7500 feet. It is only twelve miles as the crow flies between 

 the two places, but owing to the hills the journey takes two 

 days. It's a very interesting one. The first part lies along 

 the N. side of a lake named Bunyonyi, lying all among hills, 

 so that it's of very irregular shape, but about fifteen miles 

 long, with many islets and peninsulas. It's said to have no 

 crocodiles or hippos : certainly I saw no signs of any. There 

 is practically no papyrus— the steep hills slope straight down 

 to water edge, which is fringed with reeds and rushes, reminding 

 one of an English lake— save for a fringe of blue water lilies 

 in front. There were many wild duck, indistinguishable to 

 me from the mallard, and numbers of gulls I thought different 

 from any I had found on the Lake (Victoria). I found at the 

 margin two Limnaeidae {Planorbis and Ancylus) much like 

 our P. comeus and A. fluviatilis, and there was also crawling 

 about on the vegetation numbers of young of a snail which 

 might have been young Helix hortensis ! 



" I found two specimens of a most splendid worm— lying 

 quite freely on the surface of the path under some trees— quite 

 six inches long and as thick as my little finger.* It was not 

 at all active, and didn't seem much upset at being handled. 

 It was really quite a nice thing to handle— slimy, of course, 

 but beautifully firm to the touch. It gave one the impression 

 of not having much in the way of chaetae. While being 

 handled it suddenly extruded a lot of thick white fluid. Some 

 of this came from a ventral orifice not at the extremity of 

 the body, other from lateral openings at anterior extremity- 

 possibly orifices of vesiculae seminales. I was rather sur- 

 prised that this fluid was not malodorous, as it was apparently 

 defensive. The fact that the worm lies freely exposed, and 



* Later I found another crawling on the path that was longer than 

 mv booted feet placed one behind another-and I take large tens. It 

 niLt have been over twenty-four inches long! No chaetae could 

 be felt. 



