368 DIFFERENCE IN TEE LEVEL. [chap. xii. 
powerful chief and ally, Fowooka, who were the 
deadly enemies of Kamrasi. 
It now appeared that after my departure from 
M rooli to search for the lake, Ibrahim had been in¬ 
structed by Kamrasi to accompany his army, and 
attack Fowooka. This, had been .effected, but the 
attack had been confined to a bombardment by 
musketry from the high cliffs of the river upon the 
people confined upon one of the islands. A number 
of men had been killed, and Ibrahim had returned to 
Glondokoro with a quantity of ivory and porters sup¬ 
plied by Kamrasi; but he had left ten of his armed 
men as hostages with the king, to act as his guard 
until he should return on the following year to Unyoro. 
Ibrahim and his strong party having quitted the coun¬ 
try, Fowooka had invaded the mainland of Chopi, 
and had burnt and destroyed all the villages, and killed 
many people, including a powerful chief of Kamrasi’s, 
the father of the headman of the island of Patooan 
where we were now staying. Accordingly the fugi¬ 
tives from the destroyed villages had taken refuge 
upon the island of Patooan, and others of the same 
character. The headman informed us that it would 
be impossible to proceed along the bank of the river 
to Karuma, as that entire line of country was in 
possession of the enemy. This was sufficient to assure 
me that I should not procure porters. 
There was no end to the difficulties and trouble in 
this horrible country. My exploration was completed, 
as it was by no means necessary to continue the route 
from Patooan to Karuma. I had followed the Somerset 
from its junction with the lake at Magungo to this 
point; here it was a beautiful river, precisely similar in 
character to the point at which I had left it at Ka¬ 
ruma, we were now within thirty miles of that place, 
and about eighteen miles from the point opposite 
Rionga's island, where we had first hit upon the river 
on our arrival from the north. The direction was per¬ 
fectly in accordance with my observations at Karuma, 
