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I added 300-400 specimens to the collection in 2| months at Gondokoro. The best 

 fishing-grounds were the small kores running into the Nile at various spots. Whilst 

 at Gondokoro I made a trip inland with Capt. Owen, of the Uganda Rifles, to a small 

 lake in the forest, 8 miles to the north-east. The water was very muddy and khaki- 

 coloured, and this may account for the scarcity of fish in the lake. A herd of more 

 than 70 hippopotami had taken possession of one end of the lake, and occasionally 

 one would come to the other end, close to our camp. The hippos objected so much to 

 my small boat that Capt. Owen was obliged to shoot two or three, which took it into 

 their heads to charge us and might have done a good deal of damage. At the end of 

 March I started to return, stopping a few days at Kanessa, in the Sudd district, 

 where fishing yielded nothing of interest. On April 21st, 1902, I reached Omdurman, 

 thus ending the collecting part of the survey, which had lasted three years and 

 two months. 



L. LOAT. 



November 28, 1902. 



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