84 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



Although we must have been only 100 yards 

 off, they did not seem to notice us. I had al- 

 ready found that my -577 rifle was too heavy for 

 me, and did not attempt to shoot them. 



Retracing our steps to Fort Edward, we started 

 next day for Kasagama's. I managed to get a 

 waterbuck near the fort, which I suspect is a new 

 species not unlike the Singsing. Just after the 

 curious isolated hill Kobokera, one has to cross 

 the Mubuku which here forms about seven rivers, 

 whose channels are constantly altering. 



The way lies across the old bed of the Ruisamba 

 lake, consisting of sand, shingle, and clay, covered 

 with grass and a few thorn-trees. On my way 

 to Kasagama's the young grass was springing up, 

 and I saw quantities of antelope and several small 

 herds of elephants. 



On returning, the grass had sprung up to two 

 or three feet and was partly withered, and no 

 game was to be seen. It consists in this part of 

 spear grass and several species of Andropogon, and 

 is too dense when mature for the smaller antelopes 

 to traverse it easily. 



This is the general character of the plateau 

 near the mountain (probably 200 feet above 

 the level of tin 4 lake) from the Wimi river to 

 near the Salt lake. On coming close to the lake 

 shore thin woods of th(mi-trees and Euphorbias 

 appear. There is no cultivation on these 4 plains 

 worth mentioning, probably because, except on 



