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of their own, they never hesitated to seize what they 
could. In the same way the Karague race of Wan- 
yambo, now that they were of our party in the strange 
land of Uganda, were the most expert of thieves, 
making travelling painful and annoying from the 
cries of the sufferers. On inquiring of an officer 
whether such plunder was permitted by the king, he 
replied that the order was that the natives should quit 
their houses as soon as a guest came into the country, 
and take to the hill-tops. Numerous instances of this 
were observed, and on my wandering up a hill to 
beckon them back, they retired as we approached. 
On this occasion I had an instance of the taste of the 
Waganda race. The sun was setting (it was the 13th 
of May 1862), when one of them, having pointed out 
to me the various directions of the countries around 
us, quickly turned, and eagerly directed my attention 
to the full moon rising out of the Victoria Nyanza, 
sending its glittering rays over the beautiful placid 
waters. Here was a lover of the picturesque ! 
On the slopes looking towards the lake the climate 
was delightful, quite English ; only once, in a confined 
valley, did the temperature show a great heat — viz., 
97-Jr°, falling during the night, with the cold damp air, 
to 50°. We had showers, on an average, almost every 
third day between 15th April and 19th May, and but 
one severe N.E. storm of wind and rain. On the 
14th of May, our Seedees predicted that no rain 
would fall if Dr Kiengo's magic horn of an antelope 
were placed in the sun ; " for," said they, " is not the 
M'ganga out ? No rain ever falls when it is in the 
open." Sure enough, when rain was threatened, the 
horn was taken in to prevent its getting wet. The 
