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ISLANDS OF THE VICTORIA NYANZA 



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left. The fishermen on the lake shores have become an 

 extinct race. South Busoga has suffered even more 

 than Uganda. Nanyumba's country has been more 

 than decimated, whilst Wakoli's, formerly the very 

 garden of Busoga, is now a " howling wilderness." 



At the time of my visit (1910) the last act, so far as 

 the islands are concerned, had been performed. The 

 few people living on the great island of Buvuma had 



Harpoons used by Natives for Catching the Hippopotamus. 



A. This fragment of harpoon was found in the body 



of a hippopotamus shot in Rhodesia firmly 

 encysted in the animal's subcutaneous tissue. 



B. Harpoon and float as used on the Victoria Nyanza. 



(British Museum.) 



been removed to the mainland and isolated in a sanita- 

 tion camp. Similar measures had been carried out in 

 the islands of the Sesse Archipelago. To-day there is no 

 fishing carried on in the northern waters of the lake, 

 and on these islands crocodiles and tsetse-flies reign 

 supreme. 



