CHAPTER XXXIV. 



Return of Lieutenant Young from Lake Nyassa — His voyage round the Lake — 

 Mountainous Scenery — The Lake of Storms — The Settlement of Cape Maciear 

 Colony — The Ujiji Mission — Mission to Lake Nyanza — Conclusion. 



LIEUTENANT YOUNG, R.N., has recently returned in good health to this 

 country, after having successfully planted the Livingstonia Expedition, 

 of which he undertook the leadership, in Central Africa. He left Lake 

 Nyassa on the 2nd of November, 1876, and reports all well at that date. The 

 following details, taken from the " Cape Standard and Mail," of the 6th of 

 February, 1877, may prove interesting: — 



" The party arrived safely at Point Maciear, in Lake Nyassa, and set to 

 work. In a short time the steamer was put together, which is now plying on 

 the lakes, and is the pride of the mission. With a view to ascertain the ex- 

 tent of the lake, and search for places of settlement, to discover which would 

 best suit the operations of the mission, Lieutenant Young circumnavigated 

 Nyassa, and found that it ran to the north upwards of one hundred miles 

 further than Dr. Livingstone had thought. The shores of the lake are de- 

 scribed as the finest he had ever seen. Magnificent woods abound everywhere. 

 On the north-eastern shores a range of very high mountains runs parallel to 

 the lake for upwards of one hundred miles. The height is from ten thousand 

 to twelve thousand feet, and they slope very ' steeply to the very margin, the 

 flanks rising often at an angle of 45° from the lake. The circumnavigation 

 took a month, and Lieutenant Young has prepared a careful map of Nyassa, 

 which, published with his journal, will not fail to be received with great 

 interest as a most valuable contribution to our geographical knowledge of 

 that hitherto unknown country. The Lake Nyassa is two hundred and 

 fifty miles long, and on an average of sixty miles broad, and is, in fact, an 

 inland sea of no mean extent. It teems with fish. The attempt to sound one 

 spot of it with one hundred and forty fathoms of line failed to get bottom 

 at that depth. Sailing on it, as Lieutenant Young remarks, is like sailing 

 on the Atlantic. During his voyage of circumnavigation they experienced 

 a fearful gale of wind, which compelled him to lay-to for two days. The 

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