AND THE VICTORIA NYANZA 



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

 end and ta)iering up to a sharp apex) I cannot ouess. 



The Karaniojo country has lately heen sufifering from that drought 

 wliich has atHicted all North-East Africa. ]>ut the rainfall of this country 

 ap[)ears never to be very abundant, except in the south-east, among the 

 Suk Mountains, ^'et there is a considerable amount of cultivation in 

 Southern Karaiiioju, and in tlie adjoining but little-known district of 

 Lobor there is a dense population and a good deal of land prochicint*- 

 crops of native cereals. 



54. LOOKING TOWARDS THE PLAINS OF BUKEDl FHOM WESTERN SLOPES OF ELlJON 



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 Victoria Nile, enjoys a fairly good rainfall, and is well clothed with 

 vegetation. 



South of Lobor is the thickly ]iopulated District of Bukedi, which 

 consists mainly of vast plains of rich grass and huge swamps wiiich 

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

 reservoirs and backwaters for the Victoria 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 particular district, 

 which is inhabited by the Lango and INIiro tribes, who ditfer little in 

 appearance and scarcely at all in language from the Acholi of the Upper 

 Nile. Lobor to the north is inhabited partly ]\v people of this stock and 

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



