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find their way into it on the east ; these are details which 

 will prove of value when small vessels come to navigate it 

 in the future. 



The chief feature after leaving this point was a three days' 

 march over Lambalamfipa, an abrupt mountain range, which 

 crosses the country east and west, and attains, it would seem, 

 an altitude of some 4000 feet. Looking down on the plain 

 from its highest passes a vast lake appears to stretch awav 

 in front towards the north, but on descending this resolves 

 itself into a glittering plain, for the most part covered with 

 saline incrustations. The path lay directly across this. The 

 difficulties they anticipated had no real existence, for small 

 villages were found, and water was not scarce, although 

 brackish. The first demand for toll was made near here., 

 but the headman allowed them to pass for fourteen strings 

 of beads. Susi says that this plain literally swarms with 

 herds of game of all kinds : giraffe and zebra were particu- 

 larly abundant, and lions revelled in such good quarters. 

 The settlements they came to belonged chiefly to elephant 

 hunters. Farijala and Muanyasere did well with the buffalo,, 

 and plenty of beef came into camp. 



They gained some particulars concerning a salt-water lake 

 on their right, at no very considerable distance. It was 

 reported to them to be smaller than Tanganyika, and goes 

 by the name Bahari ya Muarooli — the sea of Muarooli 

 — for such is the name of the paramount chief who lives^ 

 on its shore, and if we mistake not the very Merere, or his 

 successor, about whom Dr. Livingstone from time to time 

 showed such interest. They now approached the Likwa 

 River, which flows to this inland sea: they describe it as 

 a stream running breast high, with brackish water; little 

 satisfaction was got by drinking from it. 



Just as they came to the Likwa, a long string of men was 

 seen on the opposite side filing down to the water, and being- 

 uncertain of their intentions, precautions were quickly taken 



