906 LIFE OF DA YID LIVINGSTONE, LL.D. 



success. I never looked at the grim heights of Fipa, as I sat in my boat, with- 

 out "wondering how the aged traveller was able to hold out so long after such 

 severe climbing. My men also stimulated my admiration by pointing out 

 some tremendous mountain which had occupied them an entire day to scale. 



" I recollect also attending the Geographical Soiree of 1874, which was 

 held at Willis's Rooms, and seeing pendant from top to bottom of the wall an 

 enormous map, illustrating broadly enough the ' Hypothesis of Sir Samuel 

 Baker,' which was an imaginary marriage of the Albert-Nyanza with the Tan- 

 ganyika. Heedless of the stern obstacles that hinder the actual explorer in 

 Africa, with one dab of a paint brush the gallant theorist had annihilated 

 Ruanda, Mkinyaga, Unyambenya, Chamali, Nashi, and Uzige; while abroad, 

 winding, river-like lake, nearly eight hundred geographical miles in length, 

 astonished the scientific and unscientific worlds. 



" But to the point. On reading over the duplicates of my late letters, 

 sent some months ago to the coast, I proudly perceive that I have cause to 

 congratulate myself upon having approached pretty near the truth ; but it 

 must be admitted that my conjectures were not broached until I had paid a 

 second visit to Lake Tanganyika, and had viewed with surprise the great 

 rise of the lake which had taken place during an interval of five years.- 

 In my letters I ask, ' Can it be possible that Lake Tanganyika is filling up, 

 and that the Lukuga is but an intermittent affluent ? ' Now that traditions, 

 hypotheses, and conjectures must give way before the light thrown upon the 

 subject by careful and exact exploration, it will be seen that my conjectures 

 were not unfounded. I forgot who it was who said that the word Tangan- 

 yika was derived from the Kiswahili words Kuchanganya or Kuchanganika, 

 which means in English, to ' mix.' Whether it was Mr. Cooley, or Captain 

 Burton, the suggestion must be admitted to have been most ingenious ; but 

 the word has the objection of having been borrowed from a foreign language, 

 because it shows an accidental similarity with a Wajiji term. Whether Kiswa- 

 hili or some other northern speech must be taken for the mother tongue can- 

 not be settled for some time yet ; and until this is definitely ascertained by a 

 comparison of languages and dialects, and a knowledge of the course of 

 ancient immigrations, it is greatly to be doubted whether the interpretation 

 should be admitted as the correct one. 



" Among the inquiries made by me around this lake has been one about 

 the signification of the word Tanganyika, which I discover to be only adopted 

 by the Wajiji, Warundi, Wazige, Wavira, and Wagorna, who united inhabit 

 about a third of the shores. The Wawendi, Wafipa, Warungu, and Wawem- 

 ba, who people the southern third, call it Jemba, Riemba, or Liemba — The 

 Lake. It will be remembered that, among some of the discoveries Living- 

 stone said he had made was that of Lake Liemba, which is really ' Lake-Lake.' 

 No doubt Livingstone asked often enough of the natives of Uumya, probably 



