720 LIFE OF DA VID LIVINGSTONE, LL.R 



S. lat. 1° 53' we turned east again, coasting along the northern shores of Uke- 

 rewe Island until we came to the tabular-topped bluff of Majita (Speke mis- 

 called this Mazita, or Maziti, and termed it an island) in E. long. 33° 9' 45", and 

 S. lat 1° 50', whence the land starts by trending northward of east. North of 

 Shizu, in Ukerewe, lies the large island of Ukara, which gives its name witli 

 some natives to that part of the lake lying between it and Ukerewe. It is 

 about eighteen miles long by twelve wide, and is inhabited by a people strong 

 in charms and magic medicine. 



"From Majita we pass on again to the north shore of Shashi, whose 

 south coast is bounded by Speke Gulf, and beyond Shashi we come to the 

 first district in Ururi. Ururi extends from Shashi in S. lat. 1° 50' to 0° 40' 0" 

 S.j and embraces the districts of Wye, Irieni, Urieri, Igengi, Kutiri, Shirati, 

 and Moluru. Its coast is indented most remarkably with bays and creeks, 

 which extend far inland. East of the immediate coast-line the country is a 

 level plain, which is drained by an important river called Shirati. All other 

 streams that issue into the lake along the coast of Ururi are insignificant. 



" North of Shirati, the most northern district of Ururi, begins the coun- 

 try of Ugeyeya, whose bold and mountainous shores form a strong contrast to 

 the flats of Shirati and Moluru. Here are mountains rising abruptly from 

 the lake to a height of 3,000 feet and more. This coast is also very crooked 

 and irregular, requiring patient and laborious rowing to investigate its many 

 bends and curves. The people are a timid and suspicious race, much vexed by 

 their neighbours, the Waruri, south, and Wamasui, east; and are loth to 

 talk to strangers, as the Arab slave-dealers of Pangani have not taught them 

 to love people carrying guns. The Wageyeya, having been troubled by the 

 Waruri, have left many miles of wilderness uninhabited between their country 

 and that of their fierce neighbours. But Sungoro, the agent of Mse Saba — 

 Avho has prompted the Waruri to many a devilish act, and purchased their 

 human spoils — is constructing in Ukerewe a dhow of twenty or thirty tons 

 burden, with which he intends to prosecute more actively his nefarious trade. 

 Nothing would have pleased me better than to have been commissioned by 

 some government to hang all such wretches wherever found ; and if ever a 

 pirate deserves death for inhuman crimes, Sungoro, the slave-trader, deserves 

 death. Kagehyi, in Usukuma, has become the seat of that inhuman slave- 

 trade. To that part they are collected from Sima, Magu, Ukerewe, Ururi, 

 and Ugeyeya; and when Sungoro has floated his dhow and hoisted his blood- 

 stained ensign, the great sin will increase tenfold, and the caravan road to 

 Unyanyembe will become hell's highway. 



" On the coast of Ugeyeya I expected to discover a channel to another 

 lake, as there might be a grain of truth in what the Wanguana reported to 

 Livingstone ; but I found nothing of the sort except unusually deep bends 

 in the shore, which led nowhere. The streams were insignificant and uncle- 



