788 LIFE OF DA VII) LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



long as I explored, I and nay people should have subsistence gratis ! Thus 

 was I assisted a second time by African monarchs in the cause of geo- 

 graphy. 



"I lost no time, you may rest assured, in getting ready. The boat 

 ' Lady Alice ' was conveyed to Speke's Lake Windermere, and the sections 

 screwed together, so that the next day, convoyed by six of Rumanika's 

 canoes manned by Wanyambu (natives of Karagwe), we set out for another 

 trip. After circumnavigating Lake Windermere we entered the Kagera 

 River, and almost immediately it flashed on my mind that I had made ano- 

 ther momentous discovery — that I had found, in fact, the true parent of the 

 Victoria Nile. If you glance at Speke's map you will perceive that he calls 

 this river the Kitangule, and that he has two tributaries running to it — the 

 Luchuro and the Ingezi. Speke, so wonderfully correct, -with a mind which 

 grasped geographical facts with great acuteness, and arranged the details 

 with clever precision and accuracy, is, however, seriously in error in calling 

 this noble river the Kitangule. Neither Waganda nor Wanyamba are ac- 

 quainted with it by that name, but they all know the Kagera River, which 

 flows near Kitangule. From its mouth to Urundi it is spoken of by the 

 natives on both banks as the Kagera River. The Luchuro, or rather Lukaro, 

 means ' higher up,' but is no name of any stream. Of the Ingezi I shall have 

 occasion to speak further on. 



" While exploring the Victoria Lake I ascended a few miles up the 

 Kagera, and was then struck with its great volume and depth — so much so 

 as to rank it as the principal affluent of the Victoria Lake. In coining south, 

 and crossing it at Kitangule, I sounded it and found fourteen fathoms of 

 water, or eighty -four feet deep, and one hundred and twenty yards wide. 

 This fact, added to the determined opinion of the natives, that the Kagera 

 was an arm of the Albert Nyanza, caused me to think the river worth explor- 

 ing. I knew, as all do who understand anything of African geography, that 

 the Kagera could not be an effluent of Lake Albert, but their repeated state- 

 ments to that effect caused me to suspect that such a great body of water 

 could not be created by the drainage of Ruanda and Karagwe, and that it 

 ought to have its source much further, or from some lake situate between 

 Lakes Albert and Tanganyika. When I explored Lake Windermere I dis- 

 covered, by sounding, that it had an average depth of forty feet, and that it 

 was fed and drained by the Kagera. 



"On entering the Kagera, I stated that it flashed on my mind that it was 

 the real parent of the Victoria Nile ; by sounding I found fifty-two feet of 

 water in a river fifty yards wide. I proceeded on my voyage three days up 

 the river, and came to another lake about nine miles long and a mile in 

 width, situate on the right hand of the stream. At the southern end of this 

 lake, and after working onr way through two miles of papyrus, we came to 



