694 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



pie are of a different race from those already described, as they shave their 

 hair differently, and have not the same features. They are all expert boatmen, 

 on account of living on the banks of the lake. Many of their canoes are fifty 

 or sixty feet long, four or five feet across, and are hollowed out of a single 

 trunk. From Ujiji he travelled down along Lake Tanganyika. In some 

 places there were enormous cliffs and hollows of rugged granite lying in loose 

 boulders ; in other places the cliffs were of red sandstone, and in others a sort 

 of limestone and dolamite. At one place he saw exposed on the shores of the 

 lake large masses of coal, but, owing to the precipitous nature of the cliff, he 

 was unable to get any specimens of it. 



"Proceeding onward he came to the country of Ufipa, where he found 

 that the people manufacture a heavy cloth, which they much prefer to trashy 

 European calico. Passing down to the south end of the lake, he found it 

 regularly embedded in cliffs five hundred to six hundred feet high, with 

 water-falls discharging themselves down the face. Having rounded the 

 south end he reached Miriro, where the chief is of a strikingly European 

 appearance. There was a legend that this chief had come from the country 

 ofWariri Wabina, the chiefs of which are said to have come from Mada- 

 gascar. Travelling along the side of the lake, he came to the Lukuga, a 

 large river more than a mile wide, but partly closed by a sort of sill, on 

 which a floating vegetation was growing, a clear passage, however, being 

 left of about eight hundred yards. After proceeding some four miles up the 

 river, Captain Cameron's boat got jammed amongst the floating vegetation, 

 which grows to the thickness of two or three feet, and it was with difficulty 

 the boat was extricated. 



"The Kasongo country was next reached, the principal characteristic of 

 which were the extraordinary trees, of which boats a fathom wide are some- 

 times made. Besides these there are trees of smaller dimensions, which offer 

 very good timber, some being white hardwood and others a sort of teak. 

 Here he first made the acquaintance of a large forest tree, with fruit like the 

 olive, and under the bark of which the natives obtain a gum in which they 

 fumigate themselves. Crossing the mountains of Bambarre he arrived at 

 Manyema, where there are numerous gorges, some being over one hundred 

 and fifty feet deep, and from the bottom of them trees were growing, and 

 looking up were seen towering an equal distance overhead. Turning into 

 Manyema he found the race entirely different from anything he had yet seen. 

 The houses were differently built, the people were differently armed, dressed 

 their head differently, and there was no tatooing to speak of. The villages 

 were built in long streets, thirty or forty yards wide, two or three streets 

 being alongside each other, and a space left between the houses, which were 

 of reddish clay, with sloping thatched roof — the only houses of that description 

 he saw in the interior of the country. The people were armed with spears 



