To Kisu by Water 



him that as the commandant could not afford a wife, 

 it would be insolence for his servant to buy one. 

 He never asked me again. I believe he secretly 

 saved for that purpose; but he was so vain, notwith- 

 standing his ugliness, that he spent most of his 

 waofes on his dress. I never wish for a better 

 servant ; he never broke or lost anything during 

 the year I had him. I only gave him ten shillings 

 a month, and he fed himself. I must say that 

 the Uganda native does make a most excellent 

 servant. He tries so hard to teach himself, and 

 once having learnt never forgets. The Unyoro 

 make the best servants, as they are naturally polite 

 and subservient. They are apt to be despised 

 because they do not fight well ; but, of course, a 

 servant need not be valued by the number of black 

 eyes he has presented or earned. 



To continue with our inland voyage. We 

 hugged the coast pretty close as far as we could in 

 case of accidents. We had scarcely started when 

 my boatmen got very excited. They rowed very 

 vigorously towards a black object floating on the 

 face of the water. It was an enormous great fish, 

 of what sort I do not know, dead as a door nail. 

 This meant food for them for weeks to come. 



Arrayed along the sandy shore was a most 

 beautiful collection of birds. There was one pro- 

 montory of low-lying sand, around which the waves 

 were gently lapping, which was simply thick with 

 them. Nor were they all of the same sort; there 

 did not appear to me any two alike. They were of 



