XXXV.] A RANGE OF MOUNTAINS. 463 



ey- combed in their bases, and turret -like projections standing 

 out in advance of the main portion. In some places two or 

 three of the small strata projected slightly beyond the rest, 

 forming a sort of band or string course, which added greatly to 

 the resemblance of masonry. 



The southern end of the lake had now" been nearly reached. 

 It lies niched into the edge of a table-land which overhangs it 

 some four or five hundred feet. These cliffs are some of the 

 grandest in the world. 



The lake is still extending its sway in this direction as w^ell 

 as on the eastern shore, as testified by the numerous land-slips 

 which form picturesque groins to the upright cliffs. Several 

 grand water-falls pour down the face of these cliffs, the streams 

 which supply them running tranquilly on the table -land till 

 they take the sudden plunge which precipitates them into the 

 lake. 



Westward of the lake, this table-land runs into a fine range of 

 mountains, and another range running up northward from them 

 forms the western boundary of the trough into which the Tan- 

 ganyika lies. 



This range of mountains continues w^ithout any great change 

 right up to Has Mulango — the southern of that name — where 

 they turn off to the westward, and most probably join the range 

 damming back the waters of Moero. 



Thence northward to the southern end of the mountains of 

 Ugoma, also called Eas Mulango, all the country is low, consist- 

 ing principally of small flat-topped hills of soft sandstone of a 

 dark -red color covered with grass and trees. In one or two 

 places the beaches were perfectly black ; but as the surf was 

 much too heavy for me to attempt to land, I could not ascertain 

 the cause. 



Mulango or M'lango signifies a door ; and it is worthy of re- 

 mark that the two Eas Mulango are situated at the northern 

 and southern extremities of the low -lying land which here 

 makes a break in the continuous fringe of mountains surround- 

 ing the lake, the two capes standing, as it were, at the door- 

 way, or opening, through which the Lukuga flows. 



Northward of Kasenge the mountains of Ugoma rise abrupt- 

 ly from the lake to a height of two or three thousand feet. 



