1808.] A NAME IS FOUND FOR THE LAKE. 309 



When asking for Lake Bemba, Kasongo's son said to me, 

 " Bemba is not a lake, but a country :" it is therefore better 

 to use the name BANGWEOLO, which is applied to the 

 great mass of the water, though I fear that our English 

 folks will bogle at it, or call it Bungyhollow ! Some Arabs 

 say Bambeolo as easier of pronunciation, but Bangweolo is 

 the correct word. Chikumbi's stockade is 1^ hour S.E. of 

 our camp at Kizinga. 



2nd July, 1868.— Writing to the Consul at Zanzibar to- 

 send supplies of cloth to Ujiji — 120 pieces, 40 Kiniki ; 

 80 merikano 34 inches broad, or samsam. Fine red beads 

 — Talaka, 12 frasilas. I ask for soap, coffee, sugar, candles, 

 sardines, French preserved meats, a cheese in tin, Nautical 

 Almanac for 1869 and 1870, shoes (two or four pairs), ruled 

 paper, pencils, sealing-wax, ink, powder, flannel-serge, 12 

 frasila beads, 6 of Talaka; added 3 F. pale red, 3 W. 

 white. 



3rd July. — The summary of the sources which I have 

 resolved to report as flowing into the central line of 

 drainage formed by the Chambeze, Luapula, and Lualaba 

 are thirteen in all, and each is larger than the Isis at 

 Oxford, or Avon at Hamilton. Five flow into the eastern 

 line of drainage going through Tanganyika, and five more 

 into the western line of drainage or Lufira, twenty-three or 

 more in all. The Lualaba and the Lufira unite in the Lake 

 of the chief Kinkonza. 



lith July. — I borrowed some paper from Mohamad 

 Bogharib to write home by some Arabs going to the coast. 

 I will announce my discovery to Lord Clarendon ; but I 

 reserve the parts of the Lualaba and Tanganyika for future 

 confirmation. I have no doubts on the subject, for I re- 

 ceive the reports of natives of intelligence at first hand, 

 and they have no motive for deceiving me. The best maps 

 are formed from the same sort of reports at third or fourth 

 hand. Cold N.E. winds prevail at present. 



