1869.] CURRENT IN TANGANYIKA. 13 



water : in this Tanganyika resembles most other rivers in 

 this country, as the Upper Zambesi for instance, which in 

 the Barotse country has been wearing eastwards for the last 

 thirty years : this Lake, or river, has worn eastwards too. 



1st June, 1869. — I am thankful to feel getting strong 

 again, and wish to go down Tanganyika, but cannot get 

 men : two months must elapse ere we can face the long 

 grass and superabundant water in the way to Manyuema. 



The green scum which forms on still water in this country 

 is of vegetable origin — confer vse. When the rains fall they 

 swell the lagoons, and the scum is swept ^^ 

 into the Lake ; here it is borne along J^g /£*^ 

 by the current from south to north, and " v 4<Svv;'m?> 

 arranged in long lines, which bend from ^^H^ 



side to side as the water flows, but always TAnea <* Gree ? Scam - 

 N.N.W. or N.N.E., and not driven, as here, by the winds, as 

 plants floating above the level of the water would be. 



1th June. — It is remarkable that all the Ujiji Arabs who 

 have any opinion on the subject, believe that all the water 

 in the north, and all the water in the south, too, flows into 

 Tanganyika, but where it then goes they have no con- 

 jecture. They assert, as a matter of fact, that Tanganyika, 

 Usige water, and Loanda, are one and the same piece of 

 river. 



Thani, on being applied to for men and a canoe to take 

 me down this line of drainage, consented, but let me know 

 that his people would go no further than Uvira, and then 

 return. He subsequently said Usige, but I wished to know 

 what I was to do when left at the very point where I 

 should be most in need. He replied, in his silly way, " My 

 people are afraid ; they won't go further ; get country 

 people," &c. Moeneghere sent men to Loanda to force a 

 passage through, but his people were repulsed and twenty 

 killed. 



Three men came yesterday from Mokamba, the 'greatest 



