942 LIFE OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, L.LD. 



when he styled it the Lake of Storms ; for he has constantly to record meet- 

 ing with storms, one more terrible than the other in succession. The last he 

 mentions must have been in its wildness fearfully and awfully grand. " At 

 one time," he says, " in the middle of a thunder storm of great fury no fewer 

 than twelve waterspouts appeared around us and we had literally to steer 

 hither and thither to avoid them, for had one overtaken us it would have sent 

 us to the bottom without a doubt." 



Such are the salient features in Mr. Young's brief account of the first trip 

 made by a steamer on the stormy bosom of Lake Nyassa. It did not come 

 within the scope of his paper to describe the daily life of the missionary 

 party at Cape Maclear, the insight they got into the native life, the intrigues 

 of the slave-traders, nor the marvellous effect which the presence of Europe- 

 ans produced on all sides, more especially in attracting to them from the four 

 winds the scattered remnants of villages swept away by slave-raids. He hopes 

 to preserve these details for the public in another form, which we feel sure 

 will meet with the welcome it cannot fail to deserve, as the record of the estab- 

 lishment of the first British Colony on Lake Nyassa. 



We have alread referred to the establishment of a mission by the London 

 Missionary Society on Lake Tanganyika. The Rev. Roger Price, who was 

 employed by the Society to visit the spot, and make preparations for the 

 mission, returned to this country in September, 1876, having accomplished 

 his work. The main point to which Mr. Price's inquiries were to be directed 

 was the means of transit between the coast and the interior. It has now been 

 found by actual experiment that it is perfectly feasible to take a bullock wa- 

 gon from the eastern sea-coast up to the Central Plateau, and that there is 

 neither jungle nor swamp, hill, nor tsetse fly to hinder such a course. On the 

 5th of June, Mr. Price crossed with his train of four oxen to Saadani. He 

 also took with him thirty bearers, with supplies of cloth and beads ; both sys- 

 tems of carriage being necessary, since the bullocks were an experiment. 

 This effort was a complete success. In twenty-six da}'S, he reached Mpwap- 

 wa on the Plateau, bullocks and all ; rested four days, and in sixteen days 

 more was at Saadani, on the coast, again safe and well. 



The following is a brief account of his journey. After leaving Saadani, 

 he came at once upon high land, a spur of the Usagara hills, which here 

 reaches right down to the coast ; he had no swampy plain such as the Baga- 

 moyo route presents. The jungle is rather thick at an early point of the 

 route, but it was cut down with ease. A little later he had to pass through 

 a thicker wood, and the cutting a road open cost rather severe labour. The 

 cart proceeded a long way on, but at last was caught on a hidden stump in 

 the grass and was broken in two. Leaving the cart, Mr. Price took the bul- 

 locks on in order to make sure about the tsetse fly. The ascents were not 

 difficult, and the inner valleys were not deep. He found the Nguru mountains 



