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quantity of ivory is to be obtained there at a very 

 cheap rate. The little hill alluded to as marking 

 the south-east angle of the lake, I again saw ; but so 

 indistinctly, though the atmosphere was very clear, 

 that I imagined it to be at least forty miles distant. 

 It is due east of my station 011 Observatory Hill. 

 I further draw my conclusions from the fact, that all 

 the hills in the country are much about the same 

 height two or three hundred feet above the basial 

 surface of the land ; and I could only see the top of 

 the hill like a hazy brown spot, contrasted in relief 

 against the clear blue sky. Indee'd, had my attention 

 not been drawn to it, I probably should have over- 

 looked it, and have thought there was only a sea 

 horizon before me. On facing to the W.N.W., I 

 could only see a sea horizon ; and on inquiring how 

 far back the land lay, was assured that, beyond the 

 island of Ukerewe, there was an equal expanse of it 

 east and west, and that it woiild be more than double 

 the distance of the little hill before alluded to, or 

 from eighty to one hundred miles in breadth. On 

 my inquiring about the lake's length, the man faced 

 to the north, and began nodding his head to it; at 

 the same time he kept throwing forward his right 

 hand, and, making repeated snaps of his fingers, 

 endeavoured to indicate something immeasurable ; 

 and added, that nobody knew, but he thought it 

 probably extended to the end of the world. To 

 the east of the Observatory, a six hours' journey, 



