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The party under Hassani crossed the Loguniba at Kan- 

 yingere's, aud went N. and N.N.E. They found the coun- 

 try becoming more and more mountainous, till at last, 

 approaching Morere, it was perpetually up and down. They 

 slept at a village on the top, and could send for water to 

 the bottom only once, it took so much time to descend 

 and ascend. The rivers all flowed into Kerere or Lower 

 Tanganyika. There is a hot fountain whose water could 

 not be touched nor stones stood upon. The Balegga were 

 very unfriendly, and collected in thousands. "We come 

 to buy ivory," said Hassani, " and if there is none we go 

 away." " Nay," shouted they, " you come to die here ! " 

 and then they shot with arrows ; when musket-balls 

 were returned they fled, and would not come to receive the 

 captives. 



25th October. — Bambarre. In this journey I have en- 

 deavoured to follow with unswerving fidelity the line of 

 duty. My course has been an even one, turning neither to 

 the right hand nor to the left, though my route has been 

 tortuous enough. All the hardship, hunger, and toil were 

 met with the full conviction that I was right in persevering 

 to make a complete work of the exploration of the sources 

 of the Nile. Mine has been a calm, hopeful endeavour to 

 do the work that has been given me to do, whether I succeed 

 or whether I fail. The prospect of death in pursuing what 

 I knew to be right did not make me veer to one side or the 

 other. I had a strong presentiment during the first three 

 years that I should never live through the enterprise, but 

 it weakened as I came near to the end of the journey, 

 and an eager desire to discover any evidence of the great 

 Moses having visited these parts bound me, spell-bound 

 me, I may say, for if I could bring to light anything to 

 confirm the Sacred Oracles, I should not grudge one whit all 

 the labour expended. I have to go down the Central Lua- 

 laba or Webb's Lake Biver, then up the Western or Young's 



