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southward to the northward, the same influence that 

 swells the Malagarazi would also affect the Uganda 

 rivers, as they rise merely on opposite sides of the 

 axis of the same mountains. The Arabs say, as we 

 also have found it, " that thunder accompanies nearly 

 all the storms, and the lightning there is excessive, and 

 so destructive that the King of Uganda expresses the 

 greatest dread of it indeed his palace alone has been 

 often destroyed by lightning. The Kitangura and Ka- 

 tonga rivers are affected by the rainy season in the same 

 proportion as the Malagarazi, and flow north-easterly 

 towards the lake. There the Kivira river in north 

 latitude 3, of which they bring information, flows 

 somewhere to the northward, and is not a slow sluggish 

 stream like the other two, but is rapid and boisterous, 

 showing that the country drops to the northward." 

 2fow here, in 3 north latitude, where this river is 

 said to flow, I think will be found the southern base- 

 line of those small hills, from 2000 to 4000 feet high, 

 lying to the south of Gondokoro, as the missionaries 

 describe them ; though these hills, to any one looking 

 at them from the northern side, where the land is low, 

 might appear a barrier to the waters of the lake lying 

 beyond them. This idea would not occur to any one 

 standing on the southern side, where the land is 

 nearly if not quite as high as these hills themselves. 

 Indeed, from the levels given, the two countries about 

 Kibuga and Gondokoro may be described as two land- 

 ings, with the fall between them representing a stair- 



