CHAPTER XIV. 



LAKE KIVU AGAIN SECOND EXPEDITION. 



Having paid off the hunters I cycled into Mbarara. 

 I found the troops had already departed and left 

 me to follow on. No one knew the reason for 

 this second expedition, and speculations were rife 

 as to the likely results. On all sides I was 

 congratulated on being in for a good show. I 

 afterwards found out that the true facts of the 

 case were as follows : — England discovered that the 

 thirtieth meridian East had been misdrawn on the 

 maps, which had been used for the purpose of 

 discussing and settling the boundary line between 

 the Congo and Uganda, By adhering to the error, 

 Uganda would have been almost cut off from Lake 

 Albert Edward. When the arc was accurately 

 surveyed by the British Government, and the error, 

 amounting to some fifteen minutes, rectified, we 

 demanded that a large tract of territory which, under 

 the revised surveys, came under the British sphere of 

 influence, should be restored, and immediately sent 

 troops to occupy the new territory. Unfortunately, 

 the Belgian Congo authorities did not at first 

 realize the true state of affairs, and looked upon our 

 advance as an intrusion to be resisted; eventually, 



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