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to hire her, with seventeen savages, as a crew, and four of his own 
men. He first coasted to Kabogo, a bold promontory usually 
selected as the starting point, when the lake has to be crossed, 
and reached it in five days. He describes the shore as wild and 
beautiful, affording many convenient harbors, and requiring but 
a little art to make it quite a fairy abode. There were no 
ptain Speke been unfettered by time, this would have been 
_ 4 excellent opportunity of farther travel. As it was, he was 
a to go back to Ujiji without the sailing boat, and pro- 
ed with Captain Burton to a more extended exploration ‘of 
the Tanganyika Lake, which lasted a whole month. The map- 
hie ra ‘ southern portion depends on information given by 
rab, 
» the northward to explore the Lake Nyanza. He went with 
irty-three men, through a line of populous country, less visited 
‘Sitangers than that which he had hithexto traveled on. There 
humerous petty sovereigns who were hospitable enough but 
ide fretlesome, The view of Lake Nyanza, with its numerous 
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lative information especi intelligent Arab 
, especially on that of a very inteligent Arab, 
es he has previously sick with in Unyanyembe, and whose 
ae far as the shores of the lake, were found by Captain 
pO be remarkably correct. This Arab had traveled far 
the eas Western shores, In thirty-five long marches he reached 
pital “gura river, and in twenty more marches, Kibuga, the 
of a native despot. Between these two places he crossed 
