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by journeying a sufficient distance along its right bank we might discover 

 this source, we made ample preparations for crossing a wide wilderness, 

 packed ten days' provisions of grain on the shoulders of each man of tho 

 Expedition, and on the 27th of March set out for the uninhabited land. On the 

 second day of our departure from the Karagwe capital we came to the east 

 side of a lake, a long, narrow, winding body of water. We marched along its 

 eastern shore for three days, a distauce of thirty -six miles ; on the fourth and 

 fifth day an obstructing ridge shut it from our view while marching, but by 

 occasionally surmounting the obstacle I managed to obtain views of its stream- 

 like water, still extending south and south-west. 



" On the sixth day we came to Ubimba, the frontier of Karagwe, where, 

 behind a ridge, which extends between Ubimba and the lake, we saw the 

 extreme south end of the lake we had so long followed. From a point of 

 observation near Ubimba we saw also a decided change in the formation of 

 the broad valley of the Kagera. The mountainous ridges bounding the west- 

 ern shore of the Kagera, which, extending from Mpororo south, continue on 

 a south by west course, became broken and confused in Southern Kishakka, 

 and were penetrated from the north-west by a wide valley, through which 

 issued into the Kagera a lake-like river called Akanyaru. South-west was 

 seen the course of the Kagera, which, above the confluence of the Akanyaru 

 with it was only a swift-flowing stream of no very considerable depth or 

 breadth. Such a river I thought might well be created by the drainage of 

 Eastern Urundi and Western Ubba. My attention was drawn from the 

 Kagera to the Lke-like stream of Akanyaru, and several natives stated to me, 

 while looking towards it, that it was an effluent of the Kagera, and that it 

 emptied into the Albert Nyanza. Such an extraordinary statement as this 

 should not be received and transmitted from me to you as a fact without my 

 being able to corroborate it on personal authority. 



" Exploration of the mouth of the Akanyaru proves that the Akanyaru 

 is not an effluent, but is an affluent of the Kagera. Beyond the mouth of 

 the Akanyaru I dared not go, as the natives of Kishakka on the left bank, 

 and Ugufu on the right bank, are a great deal too wild. I find that the 

 long-legged race inhabiting the countries west of Uganda, Karagwe, and Uni, 

 have a deadly aversion to strangers. The sight even of a strange dog seems 

 sufficient to send them into a mad rage, and paroxysms of spear-shaking and 

 bow-bending. They are all kin to the long-legged mortals of Bambireh, who 

 sounded the war-cry at the mere sight of our inoffensive exploring boat float- 

 ing on the Victoria Lake. They are so dreadfully afraid of losing their 

 cattle, that if one cow dies from sickness the whole country is searched to 

 discover the stranger who has bewitched the animal to death, and, if such a 

 person be found, his life is forfeited to the purblind, small-brained natives. 

 Human beings frequently astonish one another in all countries with their 



