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the north of Lake Albert, and there seems no I'eason why they 

 should not extend their wanderings into the Congo forests, 

 although so far observation tends to show that these herds find 

 their way back again, as a rule, to the countries east of the Nile. 



Hippopotami are not very nvimerous in the Victoria IsTyanza 

 near the mouth of the Kagera. The locality does not seem very 

 well suited to them. In the Kagera River itself there are more, 

 and parts of the river are infested by a number of very savage 

 brutes that make navigation in canoes or small boats extremely 

 dangerous. Lt. Weiss, of the German Commission, was repeatedly 

 attacked when in a very large canoe. He was almost upset — one 

 man was di'agged out by the arm, but escaped. Finally his crew 

 refused to go on and ran away with their paddles. The actual 

 number of hippopotami cannot be considered large in comparison 

 with the huge herds in the Nile north of Lake Albert. Probably 

 in the great swamps of the Kagera, considerably to the south of 

 the area ti-a versed by the Boundary Commission, the hippopotami 

 are much more numerous. The specimens secured in the Kagera 

 were decidedly inferior in size and in development of ivory to 

 those of the Nile. 



Rhinoceroses are extremely numerous on the right bank of the 

 Kagera, especially in Karagwe. The number of these animals is 

 quite remarkable, and, according to accounts received, they are to 

 be met with in even greater numbers a little further south. It 

 is a curious fact that no rhinoceroses are to be found on the left 

 bank of the Kagera. All those seen belonged to the common 

 black African type. Stories were current of the existence of the 

 White Rhinoceros on the right bank of the Kagei-a, but these 

 rumours require confirmation. The rhinoceroses appear to have 

 no hesitation in frecpienting the extremely steep and difiicult hills 

 of Karagwe. Their tracks and signs were seen up and down hills 

 and on ridges which appeared more adapted to the habits of 

 klipspringers or goats than of such Ijulky animals as rhinoceroses. 



In the vii'gin forest west of the lake near the mouth of the 

 Kagera, in the swampy and open forest east of Koki, and in the 

 Busenyi forest west of the Gambaizi group of hills, several herds 

 of Bufialoes are to be found. These buflaloes are of a very 

 interesting, new, large variety. They are, perhaps, the largest 

 buffaloes in existence. In all, in the district referi-ed to, there 

 may be 400 or 500 buffaloes, and as their numbers are not likely 

 to be interfered with, except by men armed with rifles, they may 

 be considered to be firmly established again after the devastation 

 caused by the great cattle-plague of some ten years back. 



In Bukanga the buffaloes wander in seai'ch of young grass, 

 after the fires, as far as the hills of Ankole and Koki, from the 

 forests which form their strongholds. There is one disadvantage, 

 however, connected with the presence of the Buffaloes, of the 

 Eland, and perhaps of other Antelopes. This is the tsetse-fly, 

 and it is to be feared that as long as large herds of buffaloes and 

 the greater antelopes exist, so long will the tsetse-fly make it 



