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well as that of Mr. Stanley, who appears to have 

 boated over some portion, agrees that this is 

 almost certain.* 



Mr. Stanley, however, states that there is a 

 cataract on the river between Latoma and Kito- 

 boko. The real authority for this statement is 

 not, however, Mr. Stanley, but Rumanika, the 

 King of Karagwe (see " Through the Dark Conti- 

 nent," vol. i. p. 459). "You can go up the river 

 as far as Kishakka and down to Morongo (the 

 falls), where the water is thrown against a big 

 rock and leaps over it, and then goes down to the 

 Nianja of Uganda." Mr. Stanley quotes further 

 on (p. 470) a long conversation with the same 

 person, in which Eumanika made himself re- 

 sponsible for at least five downright untruths, 

 and two statements which would force any other 

 traveller to draw a pencil through his notes of the 

 information supplied by an individual possessed of 

 such a fund of humour. Mr. Stanley, however, 

 appears to have allowed it to remain in his mind ; 

 and afterwards, on hearing the roar of the river 

 (as I have frequently heard it myself) when passing 

 through a narrow gorge in the hills, jumped to the 

 conclusion that this was Rumanika's Morongo. 



It is therefore the deceased Rumanika's state- 

 ment that I controvert when I say that there is 



:; '- Lately I have heard unpleasant rumours that Baron von 

 Gotzen saw a cataract on this portion, which much alters the 

 question. 



