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numerous ; they are the same sort here as I once sa-w 

 in the Somali country. Another goose, which unfor- 

 tunately I could not kill, is very different from any I 

 ever saw or heard of : it stands as high as the Can- 

 adian bird, or higher, and is black all over, saving one 

 little white patch beneath the lower mandible. It 

 was fortunate that I came on here, for the Arab in 

 question, called Mansur bin Salim, treated me very 

 kindly, and he had retainers belonging to the country 

 who knew as much about the lake as anybody, and 

 were of very great assistance. I also found a good 

 station for making observations on the lake. It was 

 Mansur who first informed me of my mistake of the 

 morning, but said that the evil reports spread at 

 Unyanyembe about Mahaya had no foundation ; on 

 the contrary, he had found him a very excellent and 

 obliging person. 



To-day we marched eight miles, and have concluded 

 our journey northwards, a total distance of 226 miles 

 from Raze", which, occupying twenty-five days, is at 

 the rate of nine miles per diem, halts inclusive. 



Early in the morning of the 4th I took a walk of three 

 miles easterly along the shore of the lake, and ascend- 

 ing a small hill (which, to distinguish it, I have called 

 Observatory Hill), took compass-bearings of all the 

 principal features of the lake. Mansur and a native, 

 the greatest traveller of the place, kindly accompanied 

 and gave me every obtainable information. This man 

 had traversed the island, as he called it, of Ukerewe 



