314 LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. [Chap. XIII. 



Again, Liemba is 3000 feet above the sea. The altitude 

 of Nyassa is ^-°-° feet. Tanganyika would thus go to 

 Nyassa — down the Shire into the Zambesi and the sea, if 

 a passage existed even below ground. 



The large Lake, said to exist to the north-west of Tan- 

 ganyika might, however, send a branch to the Nile ; but the 

 land rises up into a high ridge east of this Lake. 



It is somewhat remarkable that the impression which 

 intelligent Suaheli, who have gone into Karagwe, have re- 

 ceived is, that the Kitangule flows from Tanganyika into Lake 

 Ukerewe. One of Syde bin Omar's people put it to me very 

 forcibly the other day by saying, " Kitangule is an arm of 

 Tanganyika!" He had not followed it out; but that 

 Dagara, the father of Rumanyika, should have in his life- 

 time seriously proposed to deepen the upper part of it, so as 

 to allow canoes to pass from his place to Ujiji, is very strong 

 evidence of the river being large on the Tanganyika side. 

 We know it to be of good size, and requiring canoes on the 

 Ukerewe side. Burton came to the very silly conclusion 

 that when a native said a river ran one way, he meant 

 that it flowed in the opposite direction. Ujiji, in Ruma- 

 nyika's time, was the only mart for merchandise in the 

 country. Garaganza or Galaganza has most trade and 

 influence now. (14th Sept. 1868.) 



Okara is the name by which Victoria Nyanza is known 

 on the eastern side, and an arm of it, called Kavirondo, is 

 about forty miles broad. Lake Baringo is a distinct body 

 of water, some fifty miles broad, and giving off a river 

 called Ngardabask, which flows eastwards into the Somauli 

 country. Lake Naibash is more to the east than Kavirondo,. 

 and about fifty miles broad too : it gives off the River Kidete, 

 which is supposed to flow into Lufu. It is south-east 

 of Kavirondo ; and Kilimanjaro can be seen from its shores-; 

 in the south-east Okara, Naibash and Baringo seem to 

 have been run by Speke into one Lake. Okara, in the south* 



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