The “malwa,” or beer, is from fermented millet and ripe bananas. It is in great demand, and a chief’s greatest business in life appears to be paying visits to his friends round about, for the purpose of exhausting their malwa pots. Fortunately, it is not very potent, and is scarcely strong enough to do more than inspire a happy convivial feeling. The climate of the region is agreeable. Five hours’ work per day can be performed, even out-door, without discomfort from excessive heat, and three days out of seven during the whole of daylight, because of the frequent clouded state of the sky. When, however, the sky is exposed, the sun shines with a burning fervour that makes men seek the shelter of their cool huts. The higher portions of the grass-land--as at Kavalli’s, in the Balegga Hills, and on the summit of the Ankori pastoral ranges--range from 4,500 to 6,500 feet above the sea, and large extents of Toro and Southern Unyoro as high as 10,000, and promise to be agreeable lands for European settlers when means are provided to convey them there. When that time arrives they will find amiable, quiet, and friendly neighbours in that fine-featured race, of which the best type are the Wahuma, with whom we have never exchanged angry words, and who bring up vividly to the mind the traits of those blameless people with whom the gods deigned to banquet once a year upon the heights of Ethiopia. CHAPTER XXXIV. TO THE ENGLISH MISSION STATION, SOUTH END OF VICTORIA NYANZA. Ankori and Karagwé under two aspects--Karagwé; and the Alexandra Nile--Mtagata Hot Springs--A baby rhinoceros, captured by the Nubians, shows fight in camp--Disappearance of Wadi Asmani--The Pasha’s opinion of Captain Casati--Surgeon Parke and the pigmy damsel--Conduct of a boy pigmy--Kibbo-bora loses his wife at the Hot Springs--Arrival at Kufarro--Recent kings of Karagwé--Kiengo and Captain Nelson’s resemblance to “Speke”--The King of Uganda greatly dreaded in Karagwé--Ndagara refuses to let our sick stay in his country--Camp at Uthenga: loss of men through the cold--We throw superfluous articles in Lake Urigi in order to carry the sick--We enter the district of Ihangiro: henceforward our food has to be purchased--The Lake of Urigi--At the village of Mutara, Fath-el-Mullah runs amuck with the natives, and is delivered over to them--The Unyamatundu plateau--Halt at Ngoti: Mwengi their chief--Kajumba’s territory--We obtain a good view of Lake Victoria--The country round Kisaho--Lions and human skulls in the vicinity of our camp--The events of 1888 cleared our track for a peaceful march to the sea--We reach Amranda and Bwanga--The French missionaries and their stations at Usambiro--Arrival at Mr. Mackay’s, the English Mission station--Mr. Mackay and his books--We rest, and replenish our stores, etc.--Messrs. Mackay and Deakes