CHAPTER XIV 



LAKE KIVU 



' Some say they are cannibals ; and then, conceive a Tartar- 

 fellow eating my friend, and adding the cool malignity of 

 mustard and vinegar ! . . . Have a care, my dear friend, of 

 Anthropophagi ! their stomachs are always craving. 'Tis 

 terrible to be weighed out at fivepence a pound ; to sit at table 

 (the reverse of fishes in Holland), not as a guest, but as a 

 meat.' — Charles Lamb, 



Lake Kivu is interesting for several reasons. Not 

 only was it the last to be seen by a European — 

 Count Gotzen discovered it in 1893 — but it is 

 the highest, probably the deepest, and the most 

 recently formed of the great African lakes. Mr. 

 J. E. S. Moore suggests that it u'as formed within 

 the last 10,000 years ; but a few thousand years 

 more or less are not a matter of great moment, 

 speaking geologically. A large number of points 

 of evidence, which need not be detailed here, go 

 to prove conclusively a former connexion of Lake 

 Kivu, or of a lake somewhere about the site of 

 the present Lake Kivu, with the Albert Edward 

 Nyanza. 



Attention has been drawn in an earlier chapter 

 to the great Rift Valleys of Africa. The most 



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