MPORORO AND EAST SHORE. 



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a white and black kingfisher with an enormous 

 head. In these rushes the natives set up hippo- 

 potamus traps, of which a sketch is given. We 

 saw a few fishermen in small canoes very in- 

 geniously made of rough planks lashed together 

 by banana fibre. 



Most of this part had been recently burnt, and 

 had a very desolate appearance. Such cultivation 

 as I saw seemed to consist of wimbi, u hungry 

 rice," and sweet potatoes. 

 There seemed to be very 

 little game anywhere. 



Just before Rubata's 

 village, this old lake bottom 

 is left, and after a short 

 interval of low rolling hills 

 and swamp-rivers, which are 

 probably a southerly strip of 

 the Victoria plateau fringing 

 the Albert Edward Nyanza, 



the Central Watershed (or Ankole-Karagwe hills) 

 is again entered. 



It was in this part that I found what seemed 

 to me the characteristic schists of Ruwenzori ; 

 but they are certainly not spread over a large area, 

 as, immediately after this, one enters the charac- 

 teristic white marble-like quartzites of the Karagwe 

 series. 



From this point until the top of the Stevenson 

 Road plateau is reached, the same formation of 



Fig. 34. — Hippopotamus 

 Trap. 



