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side of the bay is a headland of a formation quite different 

 from tlie ninth, consisting of small rounded boulders and 

 large pebbles embedded in a loose matrix. 



"Shortly after arrival 1 wandered along the shore and 

 found numbers of the fresh-water jellyfish east up on the 

 sand, in diameter about equal to a florin or lialf-erown. and 

 so absolutely colourless that 1 never succeeded in finding one 

 in the water. 1 also found numbers but all water-worn— 

 of one species of the molluscs peculiar to Tanganyika, a 

 large conical species some three inches in height, and a single 

 specimen of a tuberculated shell like the marine Nassa. 

 There were also single valves of Lamellibranchs with marine 

 appearance. 



" In the afternoon 1 was taken in the local car to I "jiji. 

 which lies 7 miles south of Kigoma, the country in between 

 all cultivated. I was much disappointed in Ujiji : as it is 

 an old Arab settlement 1 had expected to find it picture (pie. 

 but it merely consists of great numbers of square mini houses, 

 dirtily whitewashed, with thatched roofs, swarming with 

 children. The famous meeting-place of Stanley and Living- 

 stone in 1ST I is marked by a block of concrete under an 

 old. decrepit mango tree, formerly, at the time of meeting, 

 on the shore. Owing to the shrinking of the lake, like the 

 other African lakes, this point is now some 200 yards distant 

 from the present actual shore, and I should think some 

 I'M feet above it. Hence between L871 and 1507 the lake 

 has fallen l'<> feet. When one realises that 6000 feet have 

 been sounded without touching bottom (authority, Commander 

 Thornley, R.N., in charge of our boats on the lake), one 

 wonders what is happening that such a prodigious volume 

 of water should fall in level at the rate of about 5 inches a 

 year ! 



"On the morning of .Ian. 5th 1 wandered alon'g the shore 

 of the bay looking for objects of interest, and go1 a line 

 Cicindelid [C. regalis, Dej., also C. intermedia, Klug] new to 

 me. I may say here that almost all the beetles [including 

 the Coprid Onitis >i)i<-iu<ihis. Klug, ;| and Hemiptera I saw 

 were strange to me also some moths, but the only butterflies 

 •ecu were familiar. I obtained a few specimens from both 



