256 A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA. 



opposite the meeting of the waters. I only once 

 found the name Akenjaru to be understood by the 

 natives, and I spent much time and trouble in 

 trying to discover where on earth the enormous 

 freshwater sea, discovered and christened the 

 Alexandra Nyanza by Mr. Stanley, could possibly 

 be. This, of course, it is now clear, has no exis- 

 tence whatever ; apparently the name is applied 

 to a papyrus fringe on the course of the Kagera 

 proper. 



The Alexandra Nyanza may therefore be put 

 down to another stroke of imagination on the part 

 of Eumanika. 



The country Bugufu is a very hilly little 

 district. It is bounded on its eastern side by 

 the Eu-Yuvu. In pronouncing this word, there 

 is a distinct pause between Ku, which seems to 

 be a prefix denoting water, pretty common in the 

 Bantu group of languages,* and Yuvu, which may 

 be an attempt to represent the sound of flowing 

 water; hence it should be spelt as is here done. 

 On the north the boundary is probably the Kagera 

 branch proper ; the left-hand bank of which is 

 part of a country called Kishakka, apparently a 

 small independent piece of Euanda. On the west 

 Bugufu appears to be bounded by a swamp-river, 

 in Yisanganwi's country, of which I failed to 

 obtain the name, but which joins the Eu-Yuvu 



* E.g., Euo, Ruizi, Rufue, &c. 



