TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION E. 853 
A similar avalanche which took place at the same place in 1782 also followed a 
period of unusual heat. 
The author visited and photographed the scene of the avalanche in the first 
instance on September 23, 1895, and following days, and again visited it Sep- 
tember 9, 1896. A good deal of ice still remains unmelted. The stones, having 
been washed by rain, show their scratchings much more conspicuously than last 
year. Vegetation is beginning to show itself in many places, spreading chiefly 
from sods and pieces of earth dislodged by, and mixed up with, the avalanche 
material. 
The ice cliff has altered very little in appearance, though it is somewhat 
rounded by melting. The dirt bands are still conspicuous. 
The total loss in land and eattle has been estimated at 130,000 frances, or above 
5,0002. 
3. On Uganda and the Upper Nile. 
By Lieutenant C. F. 8. Vanpeeur, Scots Guards. 
Lieutenant Vandeleur started from Mombasa on September 7, 1894, with Mr. 
Jackson and Captain Ashburnham, and a large caravan of about 400 men, carrying 
arms and ammunition, and after a most successful march reached Uganda at the 
end of November, at the time Colonel, now Sir H. E. Colvile, was Commissioner. 
He started again with Major Cunningham on December 19 for Unyoro and Lake 
Albert. The road used at that time led by Singo and across the river Kafu at 
Barauwa, and was a very bad one, crossing many large and deep swamps. The 
first Wanyoro were met with at Kaduma, and there is a marked difference 
between them and the Waganda, the former having much sharper features, and 
being of a slighter build than the Waganda. Having arrived at Fort Hoima, 
the headquarters, on January 1, 1895, after a halt of five days they continued 
their journey to the Albert Nyanza. On nearing the lake the country became 
more open and rocky in places, until the edge of the escarpment was reached, 
where the lake lies 1,200 feet below it, bordered by a strip of yellow sand, the 
Sudanese fort and the native village called Kibero looking mere specks close to the 
water's edge. Lieutenant Vandeleur then described the journey down the Nile 
in a steel boat with a crew of sixteen men. A friendly Wanyoro chief called 
Keyser, who spoke the Lure language, and had lived at Wadelai, went as guide. 
They sailed all the first day with a good breeze, and camped on the western shore 
at Mahagi after dark, where they had difficulty in finding a landing place, owing 
to the reeds and swampy nature of the shore. They eventually reached 
Wadelai, and camped one mile further on at Emin Pasha’s old fort, which was 
then completely overgrown. The natives appeared very hostile, and had evidently 
thrown in their lot with Kabba Rega, king of Unyoro. After Wadelai the 
stream was very strong, and they glided rapidly past narrow channels through 
the floating vegetation and papyrus, stopping sometimes near the villages on the 
banks to ask for news, at all of which they were informed that the dervishes were 
advancing from Dufile by both banks. The first Madi village was met with at 
Towara, and the natives became more friendly as they made their way down the 
river. The natives are continually fighting among themselves, and lead a pre- 
carious existence; several of the latter came to have their wounds dressed. 
An enormous amount of floating vegetation passes down the Nile; it is gradu- 
ally broken off from the sides of the river by the force of the current, and floats 
down until it attaches itself to the sides again, or reaches the cataracts below 
Dufile, where it gets broken up into little pieces. After Bora, an old Egyptian 
fort on the right bank, the river is very broad, about 13 miles, though the 
actual channel through the mud is only about 500 yards in breadth. The banks 
between Uniewe and Dufile seemed well populated; several of the villages were 
hidden away among the high rocks and boulders on small hills close to the river, 
and there was a certain amount of dbhurra and mtama cultivation, but very few 
sheep and goats. Late in the afternoon of January 14 they arrived at the old 
fort at Dufile, situated close to the water’s edge at a bend of the river on the 
