Nov. 26, 1855.] ERHARDT. 9 



1st. That of the ivory traders from Tanga, who, threading various 

 isolated masses of hills, of which Kilimandjaro and Doenyo Engai are 

 snow-capped, passes through the level pastoral country of Masai to a 

 pla6e called Burgenei. This route (taking the average of four journeys, 

 the particulars of which are given) occupies 55 days, the rate of tl*avel 

 being about seven hours a day. His informants travelled 8 days farther 

 from Burgenei, through a tract peopled densely with Waniamesi, and 

 then came suddenly upon the lake. The Masai are fierce and pastoral, 

 the Waniamesi kind-hearted and agricultural. 



2nd. That from Mboa Maji to Ujigi, a town of Uniamesi. This is Mii 

 of equal length to the first route, and is travelled leisurely by numerous 

 caravans, with horses, donkeys, &c., for slaves, ivory, and copper ore. 

 The country passed over is perfectly level, with the exception only of a 

 mass of hills, the Ngu, which has to be crossed about a quarter of the 

 way from the coast. 



3rd. Those from Kiloa or Kirimba, to the ferries Gnombo and 

 Mdenga. They are travelled by Portuguese slave dealers as well as 

 by Arabs. 



In tracing the contour of the lake, he begins from the South ; he 

 speaks of people who come up from its shores two days' journey to the 

 southwards of the ferry Mdenga (which is stated to be due west of 

 Wuibu), in order to cross the lake, for they know nothing of its southern i 

 termination. From Mdenga to Gnombo is 5 days — 2 hard days far- 

 ther to Sigono, a " heel." Here the shore of the lake makes a great 

 heel and turns to the westward of North, for 7 days, when a wild 

 elephant-country is reached. The shore now runs due west for 6 days 

 to the Waniamesi. Among them for 12 days farther, the shores run 

 due E. and W., and in another 12 days farther, a tribe, the Wafipa, is 

 reached, in whose country is a small salt-water stream, of which much 

 notice is taken and which is spoken of as running westwards frotu the 

 Wafipa to the Wapogo. 



A traveller from Ujigi, going due south along the shores of the lake, 

 reached the salt river in the Wapogo country in 7 days ; here, he says, 

 the sea made " quite a round bend." This great bend is confirmed by 

 fishermen of the Lake. From Ujigi northwards to the great river of 

 the Wadusi, was sailed by an Arab, but detailed itineraries are 

 wanting. A considerable portion of its southern and western shores is 

 traced out on similar evidence. 



Ujigi is the startirjg point for large row-boats to cross the lake to 

 the opposite shore ; in 5 days' rowing they reach a mountainous island, 

 Kavogo. 25 more days takes them to the opposite shore, where they 

 buy copper. The abovementioned Arab sailed across the sea in 12 

 or 1 5 days, and was 9 days in returning. 



