854 REPORT—1896, 
left bank. The parapet and ditch were still very distinct ; some mud-brick houses, 
some lemon and cotton trees, were the only signs remaining of the Egyptian 
occupation. It is believed they were the first white men to have reached Dufile 
since the abandonment of the place in 1888. The native reports proved quite 
untrue, and the deryishes were now at Regaff, below the cataracts, which they 
went to inspect the next day. The Madi natives are a fine, strong-looking race ; 
they wear little or no clothes, and have no wants excepting beads and iron wire. 
At Umiaa’s village, at the bend of the Nile, a representative of Abu Sulla was 
met with, an important chief living one day’s march below Dufile, on the right 
bank, He was dressed in white cloth, which was probably obtained from the 
Arabs or Mahdists to the north. Most of the villages are reached by narrow 
channels, cut through the floating vegetation, and are almost impossible to find. 
The return journey to the Albert Nyanza was long and tedious, owing to the 
strong stream. On reaching the Albert Nyanza camp was pitched at Boki; it 
was a very dark night, and a large herd of elephants came down on both sides of 
the camp to drink, some of them coming unpleasantly close. 
The people on the west of the Albert Nyanza used to pay tribute to Kabba 
Rega, but that is at an end now. The Shulis, in the angle contained by the two 
Niles, are inclined to be friendly. With steamers on the lake and railway com- 
munication, a large extent of country would be opened for trade, and there is no 
limit at present to the ivory to he obtained from the countries bordering the 
Albert. There. is no hindrance to navigation down to Dufile. The road now 
used between Unyoro and Uganda passes by Mrulfi at the junction of the Kafu 
river, where there is a fort garrisoned by Sudanese, and on along the Victoria Nile 
to Lake Kioja, from where it runs in a direct line to Mengo, the capital of 
Uganda. The road is a very good one, and has been carried across the swamps or 
causeways. 
In Kampala there are broad roads which enclose houses and shambas.. The 
railway will make a great difference to this country. There is a large demand 
for European clothes, boots, and shoes; the people are very imitative, and already 
the king and chiefs have given orders to traders for various articles which they 
see the Europeans possess.. A great deal of rice and a certain amount .of English 
potatoes and native coffee are grown in Uganda. Cotton has been found to grow 
well. One result of the railway will be that horses and donkeys will be trans- 
ported rapidly through the belt of country infested by the tsetse fly, and ought 
to reach Uganda in good condition. Animals do well there, if well looked after, 
though dangers exist in snakes and bad grass met with in places. 
4. Coast-forms of Romney Marsh, By Dr. F. G. Guiniver. 
Dungeness Point in south-eastern England projects from. the dissected Weald 
dome into the English Channel. It consists of two classes of recent deposits, 
shingle and marsh, It is proposed here to discuss these deposits, formed during 
the present cycle of shore development, as representing a coastal form characteristic 
of a certain stage of a cycle. 
The whole deposit may be called a cuspate foreland.’ Foreland is here used 
as a technical term, meaning those deposits which are built in front of the oldland, 
including all those forms that project into the sea beyond the initial coastline, 
“which was formed where the sea surface intersected the land at the-beginning of 
the cycle. 
This initial coast was attacked by the sea, and early in the development of the 
coast and shore form a low cliff or ‘nip’ was made in the coast all along the shore. 
At a later stage in the development the supply of load was just enough to 
equal the ability of the sea to transport, and a graded condition resulted. A beach 
now was seen at the foot of the cliff. This equilibrium would not last at all 
1 Bull. GS.A., vol. vil. 1895, p. 399. 
