At the time of Baker’s visit no doubt (though he does not say so) there was a good deal of mist about this lake,--a common feature. The mist and the clouds seem to have prevented the travellers from getting any glimpse of the mass of the Ruwenzori snow-range which lay not many miles distant from them to the south. They also believed (though they were then a day’s journey from the end of the lake) that there was a boundless sea-horizon to the south. Their misapprehension of the geography of this lake has often caused surprise; but apart from a natural tendency to exaggerate the importance of their own particular lake, in looking to the southward they were looking up the broad valley of the Semliki, which was undoubtedly at one time--at any rate for a distance of some fifty miles--a southern extension of the Albert Nyanza. This valley was bordered on either side by cliff-like mountains--plateau edges--continued northwards along the coasts of the Albert Lake. To the west of Lake Albert the plateau tilts westwards towards the Congo basin. Baker called the western cliffs and the foothills of Ruwenzori the Blue Mountains,--a name they might very well continue to bear, as there is no native designation for these heights, which separate so abruptly and by only a few miles the basin of the Congo from the basin of the Nile. After a short stay at Mbakovia, the Bakers got into canoes and coasted along the Albert Nyanza to Magungo, where the lake is entered by the Victoria Nile. They ascended the Victoria Nile and discovered the Murchison Falls, “where the river drops in one leap one hundred and twenty feet into a deep basin, the edge of which literally swarms with crocodiles.” On their overland journey in the direction of the Karuma Falls, their porters again deserted, and for two months they were stranded, almost at death’s door, living with difficulty on wild herbs and mouldy flour; occasionally, but rarely, obtaining fowls from the natives. Once more they came within the persecution of Kamurasi, who pestered Baker for his assistance in a war he was carrying on against his relation, Fowuka. Whilst Baker was hesitating, the Nile was crossed by one of De Bono’s caravans of ivory-traders, who had entered into an alliance with Fowuka. They were just about to attack Kamurasi’s army (and with their one hundred and fifty guns would have easily defeated it) when Baker planted the British flag in Kamurasi’s camp, and warned De Bono’s soldiers that the Unyoro king was now under British protection. Overawed by Baker’s threats, the ivory-traders withdrew to the north side of the Nile. The only return that he received from Kamurasi for this service was that the latter placed every obstacle in his way to prevent his leaving Unyoro. At the same time Mutesa of Uganda, having heard of a white man’s arrival in Unyoro, and imagining that Kamurasi was stopping his further journey to Uganda, sent a large army to ravage Unyoro. Kamurasi fled to some islands in the Nile,