1866.] THE LAKE'S TRIBUTARY STREAMS. 99 



13^ September. — We crossed a strong brook called Nkore. 

 My object in mentioning the brooks which were flowing 

 at this time, and near the end of the dry season, is to 

 give an idea of the sources of supply of evaporation. The 

 men enumerate the following, north of the Misinje. Those 

 which are greater are marked thus -J-, and the lesser 



ones — . 



1. Misinje -f has canoes. 



2. Loangwa — 



3. Lesefa — 



4. Lelula - 



5. Nchamanje — 



6. Musumba + 



7. Fubwe + 



8. Chia - 



9. Kisanga -J- 



10. Bweka — 



11. Chifumero + Jias canoes. 



12. Loangwa — 



13. Mkoho - 



14. Mangwelo - at 1ST. end of Lake. 



Including the above there are twenty or twenty-four 

 perennial brooks and torrents which give a good supply of 

 water in the dry season ; in the wet season they are supple- 

 mented by a number of burns, which, though flowing now, 

 have their mouths blocked up with bars of sand, and yield 

 nothing except by percolation ; the Lake rises at least four 

 feet perpendicularly in the wet season, and has enough 

 during the year from these perennial brooks to supply the 

 Shire's continual flow. 



[It will be remembered that the beautiful river Shire" 

 carries off the waters of Lake Nyassa and joins the Zambesi 

 near Mount Morambala, about ninety miles from the sea. 

 It is by this water-way that Livingstone always hoped to 



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