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The Sources of the Nile. 87 
for the Arabs. At the close of the rainy season Captain Burton 
and myself left Zanzibar, with a caravan mustering about eighty 
men, having previously sent on some supplies in anticipation of 
our arrival. Unable to collect a sufficient caravan for the con- 
veyance of our kit, we purchased a number of donkeys (about 
thirty). Thus completed, and with an escort of twelve Belooch 
soldiers, given us by Prince Majid, we commenced our journey 
westward, and arrived (by slow degrees travelling over a low 
alluvial plain, up the course of the Kingani river) at Zungome- 
To, a village situated under the coast range, which struck us as 
bearing a good comparison with the western ghauts of India. 
We might call this range the Eastern Ghauts of Africa. There 
We were detained by severe illness a considerable time. A fter- 
Wards we crossed these eastern ghauts, the maximum altitude of 
which I ascertained to be about 6000 feet. On the western side 
of this longitudinal chain of hills we alighted on an elevated 
plateau, an almost dead flat, ranging in level from 8000 to 4000 
feet above the sea. Here we had cold easterly winds, continu- 
lng through the entire year. Proceeding onwards, we arrived 
at the Tanganyika Lake, called by the Arabs Sea Ujiji, a local 
hame taken from the country on the eastern margin of the lake, 
whither they go to traffic for ivory and slaves. This lake is in 
4 singular synclinal depression ; I found its elevation to be only 
wv eet; whereas the surrounding country (the plateau), as I 
said before, averaged from 3000 to 4000 feet. The lake is en- 
reled at its northern extremity by a half-moon shaped range 
of hills, the height of which I estimated (for I could not reach 
its summit) to be at least 6000 feet. They may extend to a 
ght much greater than that; however, we could not take any 
Seservations for determining it. After exploring this lake we 
teturned by the former route to Unyanyembe, an Arab rs 
Situated in latitude 5° south, and about 83° east longitude. My 
nn Captain Burton, unable to proceed farther, remained 
“te; whilst I, taking just sufficient provisions for a period of 
SIX weeks, made a rapid march due north, to latitude 2° 30’ 
South; and there discovered the southern extremity of the Ny- 
ersed. In reverting to the question asked, why I consider 
Lake Nyanza to be the great reservoir to the Nile, my an- 
SWer is this: [ find, by observation, that its southern extremity 
- lies in east longitude 83°, and south latitude 2° 30’. By Arab 
ee tion, in which I place implicit confidence, I have heard 
a Waters extend thence, in a northerly direction, certainly 
‘five to six degrees. Notwithstanding they can account for 
