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of the Nile fifty miles or so north of Jinja, good sport may be 
had with barbel and other silvery fishes, both trolling with 
spoon and baiting float tackle with bread. 
The best fishing, however, in this part of Uganda is on 
Lake Albert, at Butiaba. I could spare only two days, but 
I contrived, again trolling with a spoon to secure Nile perch — 
the 4 punda ’ of the local natives, and the 4 baggara ’ of the 
Sudanese 1 — of 49 and 80 \ lbs. and another very game fish, 
which I understand to be called 4 tiger fish,’ of 10 lbs. Of 
the last named, which has formidable teeth and the adipose 
fin more commonly associated with the Salmonidce, I caught 
nearly two-score pounders from the wharf on a salmon-fly. 
The ten-pounder leapt in the air several times like a trout, 
but the perch had another trick that vividly recalled the last 
moments of some of my Florida tarpon. This consisted in 
standing, as it were, upright on the tail, and opening its 
enormous mouth to its fullest gape in an effort to shake out 
the spoon. 
I only knew the tarpon (and not even all of them) try 
this at the last ditch, when close to the boat, but the Nile 
perch does it immediately on being hooked, first running out 
fifty to eighty yards of line, and several times before coming 
to the gaff. My own visit to Lake Albert was too brief and 
too imperfectly organised to admit of much success, but I have 
great hopes that Sir Frederick Jackson, K.C.M.G., who followed 
a week later, will have secured some really worthy specimens. 
TWO RARE EAST AFRICAN ANIMALS 
By H. J. Allen Turner 
The last two months, October and November 1918, I 
have spent collecting natural history specimens along the 
southern edge and round the scattered areas of the Kakumega 
forest. 
Perhaps the most remarkable of the little known animals 
1 These names, of which the first means donkey, and the second, cow, 
doubtless refer to the great bulk and somewhat clumsy build of the fish. 
