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finding not less than 8 feet of water. The pears runs into Lake Bang- 
weolo, and on coming out of it assumes the name Luapula. The Luapu ula 
fae down north past the town of Cazembe, 8% 12 miles below it enters 
Lake Moero. On leaving Moero at its northern end by a rent in the moun- 
tains of Rua, i elon’ the name Lualaba, and ing on N.N.w., forms Ulenge 
in the coun pa of Tanganyika. I have seen it only where it leaves 
quite satisfied that even before it receives the river Sofunso from Marungu, 
e Soburi from the Baloba country, it is ca ae to form Ulenge, 
rape a is a Jake with many islands, as some assert, or a sort of Punjaub 
—a division into several branches, as is maintained by ph deni These branches 
are all sete up by the Lufira—a large river, which by many confluents 
drains the western side of the great valley. I have ca seen the Lufira, but 
pointed out west of 11° south, it is — asserted always to require canoes, 
This is purely native i ae Hes Some intelligent men cae a that when the 
Lufira takes up the water of Ulenge, chive N.N.W., ke Chowambe, 
which I conjecture to be that discovered by Mr. Baker. “Others think that it 
goes into Lake T y ambe 
by a river named Loanda. These are the parts near which. J] sus 
judgment. 
Vion tel gree a, Lopere, Kabvir e, Marungu, Lun mon & nd 
; the people are pevlore by the initial * ‘4 Ba’ tastded of gre nitial ho? or 
w fox country. The Arabs soften ‘ Ba’i a, in spines with their 
Suaheli dialect ; the natives never do. On chs northern slope of the upland, 
and on the 2d of April, 1867, I a ed Lake Liemba; it lies in a hollow, 
with precipitous sides 2000 feet dow ; it is extremely beautiful, sides, top, 
and bottom being covered with trees sci other She ioe Elephants, buffa- 
loes, and antelopes feed on the steep slopes, while hippopotami, crocodiles, 
and fish swarm in the waters. Guns being mama: 4 5 elep. ess 
sometimes —- into a — have it all their own way. It is as 
] ise as 
e 
w into Liemba, and a number of brooks (Scotticé, “ trout wap, from 12 to 
15 feet broad, leap down the steep bright red clay s schist rocks, and form splen- 
did case ades, that made the dullest of my attendants pause and remark with 
nder. I measured bne of the oie, Lofu, 50 miles from its ates 
and found it at a ford 204 feet, say a 100 7 broad, thigh and wa 
and flowing fast ptember—the last ae 
fallen on ao 12th of beat —— the Lofu requires canoes. The Louzua 
drives a body of smooth water into Liemba, bearing on its surface duck- 
eed an “i Aare this body of water was 10 fathoms deep. Another 
of the four streams the Lofu, but an over-officious 
man seeing more of it and another 
lake is nt large fom 18 to 20 miles solar and from 35 to. 40 rote it goes 
NN.W. in F like y ‘ oe 
I woul ave set it down as an arm of that lake, but that sarbiataee 
feet above t of the sea, while Speke makes that 1844 feet lity 
tried to follow yee river-like portion, — as prevented by a war which had 
broken out between the Chief of Itawa and a party of ivory traders from Zanzi- 
bar. I then set off to go 150 miles south, then west, till past the disturbed dis- 
~ and explore the west of ing or = on ‘of Zan 80 — I found the 
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