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case formed by the hills in question. The country in 

 latitudes 2 and 5 is therefore terraced like a hanging 

 garden. 



The N'yanza, as we now see, is a large expansive 

 sheet of water, flush with the basial surface of the 

 country, and lies between the Mountains of the Moon 

 (on its Avestern side), having, according to Dr Krapff, 

 snowy Kaenia on its eastern flank. Krapff tells us of 

 a large river flowing down from the western side of 

 this snowy peak, and trending away to the north-west 

 in a direction leading right into my lake. Now, re- 

 turning again to the western side, we find that the 

 N'yanza is plentifully supplied by those streams com- 

 ing from the Lunse Montes, of which the Arabs, one 

 and all, give such consistent and concise accounts ; 

 -and the flowings of which, being north-easterly, must, 

 in course of time and distance, commingle with those 

 north-westerly off-flowings, before mentioned, of Mons 

 Kaenia. My impression is, after hearing everybody's 

 story on the matter, that these streams enter at oppo- 

 site sides of the lake, on the northern side of the 

 equator, and are consequently very considerable feed- 

 ers to it. To help at once in the argument that the 

 N'yanza exists as a large sheet of water to the north 

 of the equator, I will anticipate a story in my diary, 

 by adverting to it before its order of succession. On 

 the return to Unyanyembe, a native of Msalala told 

 me that he had once travelled up the western shore 

 of the N'yanza to the district of Kitara, where, he 



