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we found a hard bottom again and a current running in a 

 south-easterly direction at the rate of a mile an hour. This. 



BUDUMA WITH WIFE AND CHILD 



surprised us, for we had never observed such a thing before 

 in the Lake. At first we thought it might indicate the 

 influence of a river ; but that was not the case, and it could 

 only have been caused by the return of the water over mud- 

 fiats at the fall of the wind. During the night our Buduma 

 friend decamped, so in the morning we organised a man hunt. 

 He was eventually found lying on his belly in a reed swamp 

 at the other end of the island. He owed his discovery to a 

 kite which hovered over his hiding-place so persistently that, 

 our attention was attracted to the spot. After that he bore 

 himself with a very bad grace, sitting sullen and silent in the 



