548 LAKE MOERO. 



on the west is the highest, and is part of the country called 

 Rua-Moero; it gives off a river at its northwest end called 

 Lualaba, and receives the river Kalongosi (pronounced by the 

 Arabs Karungwesi) on the east near its middle, and the rivers 

 Luapula and Rovukwe at its southern extremity. 



"The point of most interest in Lake Moero is that it forms 

 one of a chain of lakes, connected by a river some five hundred 

 miles in length. First of all the Chambeze rises in the country 

 of Mambwe, N.E. of Molemba. It then flows southwest and 

 west till it reaches lat. 11° S., and long. 29° E., where it forms 

 Lake Bemba or Bangweolo ; emerging thence it assumes the 

 new name Luapula, and comes down here to fall into Moero. 

 On going out of this lake it is known by the name Lualaba, as 

 it flows N.W. in Rua to form another lake with many islands 

 called Urenge or Ulenge. Beyond this, information is not 

 positive as to whether it enters Tanganyika or another lake 

 beyond that. When I crossed the Chambeze, the similarity of 

 names led me to imagine that this was a branch of the Zambesi. 

 The natives said ' No. This goes southwest, and forms a very 

 large water there.' But I had become prepossessed with the idea 

 that Lake Liemba was that Bemba of which I had heard in 

 1863, and we had been so starved in the south that I gladly set 

 my face north. The river-like prolongation of Liemba might 

 go to Moero, and where I could not follow the arm of Liemba. 

 Then I worked my way to this lake. Since coming to Casembe's 

 the testimony of natives and Arabs has been so united and con- 

 sistent that I am but ten days from Lake Bemba, or Bangweolo, 

 that I cannot doubt its accuracy. I am so tired of exploration 

 without a word from home or anywhere else for two years, that 

 I must go to Ujiji on Tanganyika for letters before doing any- 

 thing else. The banks and country adjacent to Lake Bangweolo 

 are reported to be now very muddy and very unhealthy. I 

 have no medicine. The inhabitants suffer greatly from swelled 

 thyroid gland or Derbyshire neck and elephantiasis, and this is 

 the rainy season and very unsafe for me. 



" When at the lower end of Moero we were so near Casembe 

 that it was thought well to ascertain the length of the lake, and 

 see Casembe too. We came up between the double range that 

 flanks the east of the lake ; but mountains and plains are so 



