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these few give first-rate sport. Passing mention must be made 
of the imported trout in the river Gura, which have already 
flourished in the third generation so remarkably in their 
adopted home that they are almost entitled to rank as natives. 
Unfortunately, as I found on a recent safari to the Aberdares, 
they have increased only too well, since few people fish for 
them and they have equally few natural enemies, with the 
result that there are far more trout in the river than it can 
support ; and in proof of their poor condition I need only 
quote the fact that a fish of nineteen inches that I caught on a 
‘ coachman ’ weighed only 2 lbs. 2 ozs., and that I returned 
to the river a score of equally lean kine over the twelve-inch 
limit. With a little attention, this should be a beautiful trout 
stream and a boon to future officials on short leave. 
Apart from these settlers, the only fresh-water fish that 
can seriously engage the angler appears to be a type of barbel, 
found, as I understand, in a score or so of more or less 
well-defined species, sub-species and what not, but, for the 
angler, like the primrose by the river, it is just a barbel that 
takes a spoon, or even a red palmer and sundry other flies. 
My only personal acquaintance with any form of this 
permeating barbel was at the Ripon Falls, Jinja, which takes 
us into Uganda, where, not being familiar with the local casting 
reel that I borrowed for the occasion from Dr. van Somerer, 
I caught only eight fish weighing in all 70 lbs. There were 
apparently two kinds, the one dark green and the other bronze, 
but how far either of these is entitled to specific distinction 
from Barbus Badcliffi I did not investigate. I should not 
accord these barbel at Jinja very high praise, for it is apparent 
that it is the weight of water below the Fall, rather than the 
efforts of the fish, which bends the rod. Still, having caught 
nothing better than two of 11J lbs. and two more of 11 lbs., 
I am, perhaps, hardly entitled to return a verdict. 
So far as Lake Victoria goes, between Kisumu and the 
Uganda ports, the angler need not lose very much time, as 
all the best fish seem to be of siluroid type, otherwise cat-fish, 
which give about the same sport as eels, and behave, indeed, 
very similarly when hooked. 
At Namsagali and Kakindu, which are on the same bank 
