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reached a boat. The crocodiles had probably been scared. off 

 by the awful din. Many of the nearer boats paddled away the 

 quicker when I approached them, in their terror taking me 

 for a desperate enemy wishing to board them. My boy had 

 remained in the boat ; but when he drew my rifle out of its 

 canvas covering, my boatmen paused, allowed me to reach 

 them, and drew" me into the boat. 



With the boat at a pretty safe distance, and with me aboard 

 and now armed with a rifle, my boatmen became quite plucky 



THE NEW FORT AT I.UBA S IN USOGA. 



again. Pointing to a solitary sentinel posted on a conspicuous 

 rock, they begged me to shoot him. I felt more inclined to 

 shoot them for having been the aggressors. I was told after- 

 wards, that we had landed on one of the Uvuma islands, 

 inhabited by a plucky but treacherous race which hates the 

 Wasoga. The Uvuma islanders fall, for administrative pur- 

 poses, under the jurisdiction of the official in charge of Usoga. 

 The Usoga pipe differs from those in use in Uganda and in 

 Kavirondo. The Wasoga use a hubble-bubble ; it consists of a 

 small gourd, with a reed mouth-piece at the side and a small 

 red clay bowl stuck on the top. The wooden drinking-cup 

 reminds one of a communion chalice ; it is carved out of a 

 solid piece of wood. 



