Lake Chohoa and the Ruanda 



struggling cheerfully. The following day we reached another 

 Roman Catholic Mission called Isawi, where we were very 

 kindly put up for the night. Here my boy, Salim, was 

 taken very ill with pneumonia, and as we wished to push 

 on to Nyanza he had to be left in the Mission hospital mean- 

 while. 



After leaving the short mountain forest, or scrub to use 

 a more appropriate term, of the Akanyaru Valley, one 

 ascends again to the steppe region on its western side, in 

 every respect similar to that through which we had been 

 travelling, north of Kitega. 



We had sent on word to the Belgian " Chef de Terri- 

 toire " at Nyanza, notifying him of our expected arrival 

 that day but we were quite unprepared for the reception 

 that awaited us. Towards three o'clock in the afternoon, 

 having accomplished the twenty miles' trek that separates 

 Isawi from Nyanza or " Niansa," we arrived — dressed in 

 our oldest and shabbiest attire — in front of the " boma," 

 expecting to find only Lieutenant Defawe, the ofiicial in 

 charge of the district and adviser to Msinga. Lieutenant 

 Defawe was certainly there and he came out to meet us 

 but with him were the Resident, Major van den Eede, two 

 judges of the High Court, Messieurs Delauney and Vos, 

 and a " Procureur de Roi " whose name I forget. We were 

 delighted to hear that they had kindly waited lunch for us, 

 to which we did ample justice, for we were fearfully hungry 

 after the long march. It turned out that they were adjusting 

 war compensation cases. They all proved to be the happiest 

 of companions, so we spent several merry evenings together. 



The day after our arrival we were to meet Sultan Msinga, 

 King of the Watusi, so before I go further it would be as 



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