790 LIFE OF DAY ID LIVING STONE, LL.D. 



twelve feet deep with a tremendous uproar — on which account the natives 

 call it Morongo, or the Noisy Falls. 



" On returning from my voyage of exploration — during which time I 

 was most hospitably entertained, so powerful was the name of the gentle 

 Kumanika — I requested guides to take me overland to the hot springs of 

 Mlagata, which have obtained such renown throughout all the neighbouring 

 countries for their healing properties. Two days' severe marching towards 

 the north brought us to a deep wooded gorge wherein they are situated. I 

 discovered a most astonishing variety of plants, herbs, trees, and bushes ; for 

 here Nature was in her most prolific mood. She shot forth her products with 

 such vigour that each plant seemed to strangle the others for lack of room. 

 They so clambered over one another that small hills of vegetation were 

 formed, the lowest portion of the mass stifled by the uppermost, and through 

 the heaps thus formed tall trees shot upward an arrow's flight into the upper 

 air with globes of radiant green foliage like crowns surmounting their stems. 



" The springs were visited at this time by numbers of diseased persons, 

 and males and females were seen lying promiscuously in the hot pools half 

 asleep. The hottest waters issued in streams from the base of a rocky hill, 

 and when Fahrenheit's thermometer was placed in these springs the mercury 

 rose to 129°. Four bubbled upward from the ground through a depth of 

 dark muddy sediment, and had a temperature of 110°. These were the most 

 favoured by the natives, and the curative reputation of the locality was based 

 on the properties of this particular water. I camped here three days, and 

 made free use of a reserved outflow ; but, excepting its unusual cleanliness, 

 I cannot say I enjoyed any benefit. I drank about a gallon of the potent 

 liquid, and can report this much, that it has no laxative effect on the system. 

 A bottleful of the purest water I took away with me, in the hope that some 

 day it may be analysed by professional men in Europe. 



" It is but yesterday that I returned from the Hot Springs, and, having 

 seen all worth seeing in Karagwe, without as yet discovering any road west- 

 ward, I propose the day after to-morrow to march along the eastern shore of 

 the lake, south or south-west, as far as practicable, with the view to follow 

 up the interesting discoveries I have made." 



"Ubagwe, Western Unyamwezi, Central Africa, 

 April, 24, 1876. 

 "We departed from the capital of Karagwe with very brave intentions 

 and high aspirations. We had discovered that the Kagera formed a great 

 lake about eighty miles in length and from five to fourteen miles in breath, 

 and that at Kishakka it was still a powerful, deep-flowing stream, while 

 reports from natives and Arabs had created curious ideas within our minds 

 as to the fountain-head of this noble river. Imbued with the thought that 



