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ISLANDS OF THE VICTORIA NYANZA 53 
left. The fishermen on the lake shores have become an 
extinct race. South Busoga has suffered even more 
than Uganda. Nanyumba's country has been more 
than decimated, whilst Wakolfs, formerly the very 
garden of Busoga, is now a “ howling wilderness.” 
At the time of my visit (1910) the last act, so far as 
the islands are concerned, had been performed. The 
few people living on the great island of Buvuma had 
Harpoons used by Natives for Catching the Hippopotamus. 
A. This fragment of harpoon was found in the body 
of a hippopotamus shot in Rhodesia firmly 
encysted in the animal’s subcutaneous tissue. 
B. Harpoon and float as used on the Victoria Nyanza, 
(British Museum.) 
been removed to the mainland and isolated in a sanita¬ 
tion camp. Similar measures had been carried out in 
the islands of the Sesse Archipelago. To-day there is no 
fishing carried on in the northern waters of the lake, 
and on these islands crocodiles and tsetse-flies reign 
supreme. 
