228 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



The forty and myself were packed into three 

 huge dug-outs at the Salt lake, and, after paddling 

 lj hours, we arrived safely at Kaihura's (Kwa 

 Kaihura means " of, or belonging to, Kaihura "). 



The position of this place is wrongly put on 

 most maps, Kaihura having moved very much to 

 the north. 



I found it to be a most miserable little collection 

 of huts, and his people to be a puny, half-starved 

 race, apparently living chiefly on fish. Kaihura 

 was very much alarmed on account of what had 

 happened to some deserters from Mr. Grant's 

 caravan. These men had attempted, on their way 

 back to Uganda, to make slaves of two guides who 

 had been supplied to them by a neighbouring chief 

 (in the ordinary Suahili manner) and in conse- 

 quence had lost their lives. Poor old Kaihura was 

 also in great fear of Antari, whose people came 

 and raided him when they had nothing better to 

 do. 



In fact, the general balance of power in this 

 corner of Africa is in a state of great instability. A 

 corner of Waruanda people is pushing up from 

 Ruanda along the eastern border of the Albert 

 Edward Nyanza. This seems to be a race in a 

 state of expansion, and is at present pushing on 

 all the tribes which surround it. As is usual in 

 such cases, their pioneer colonies are in course 

 of separation from the parent race, and friction 

 is beginning to occur between Makowalli, the head 



