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roofs contrasting with the emerald green of the beauti- 

 ful milk-bush, the coral branches of which cluster in 

 such profusion round the cottages, and form alleys 

 and hedgerows about the villages as ornamental as 

 any garden shrub in England. But the pleasure of 

 the mere view vanished in the presence of those more 

 intense and exciting emotions which are called up by 

 the consideration of the commercial and geographical 

 importance of the prospect before me. I no longer 

 felt any doubt that the lake at my feet gave birth to 

 that interesting river, the source of which has been 

 the subject of so much speculation, and the object of 

 so many explorers. The Arabs' tale was proved to 

 the letter. This is a far more extensive lake than 

 the Tanganyika ; " so broad you could not see across 

 it, and so long that nobody knew its length." l I 

 had now the pleasure of perceiving that a map I had 

 constructed on Arab testimony, and sent home to the 

 Royal Geographical Society before leaving Unyan- 

 yembe, was so substantially correct that in its general 

 outlines I had nothing whatever to alter. Further, 

 as I drew that map after proving their first statements 

 about the Tanganyika, which were made before my 

 going there, I have every reason to feel confident of 

 their veracity relative to their travels north through 

 Karagwah, and to Kibuga in Uganda. When Shaykh 

 Snay told us of the Ukerewe, as he called the N'yanza, 



1 This magnificent sheet of water I have ventured to name 

 VICTORIA, after our gracious Sovereign. J. H. S. 



