696 General Notes. [ November, 
formed by the countries of Irangara, Unyampaka, Buhuju, and Mpo- 
oro, which coast line runs a nearly south-southwest course. Between 
Mpororo and Usongora extend the islands of the maritime state of 
Utumbi. West of Usongora is Ukonju, on the western coast of Lake 
Albert, reputed to be peopled by cannibals. North of Ukonju is the 
great country of Ulegga. 
Coming to the eastern coast of Lake Albert we have Ruanda running 
from Mpororo on the east to Ukonju on the west, occupying the whole 
of the south and southeast coast of Lake Albert. North of Unyam- 
paka, on the east side, is Irangara, and north of Irangara the district of 
Toro. Unyoro occupies the whole of the east side from the Murchison 
Falls of the Victoria Nile to Mpororo, for Unyampaka, Toro; Buhuja, 
and Irangara are merely districts of Unyoro. The great promontory 
of Usongora, which half shuts in Beatrice Gulf, is tributary to Kabba 
Rega, though governed. by Nyika, king of Gambaragara. 
Usongora is the great salt field whence all the surrounding countries 
obtain their salt. It is, from all accounts, a very land of wonders, but 
the traveler desirous of exploring it should have a thousand Sniders to 
protect him, for the natives, like those of Ankori, care for nothing but 
milk and goatskins. Among the wonders credited to it are a mountain 
emitting “fire and stones,” a salt lake of considerable extent, several 
hills of rock salt, a large plain encrusted thickly with salt and alkali, a 
breed of very large dogs of extraordinary ferocity, and a race of such 
long-legged natives that ordinary mortals regard them with surprise and 
awe. 
After circumnavigating Lake Windermere we entered the Kagera 
River, and almost immediately it flashed on my mind that I had made 
another grand discovery, — that I had discovered, in fact, the true par 
ent of the Victoria Nile. ‘ 
If you glance at Speke’s map you will perceive that he calls this river 
the Kitangule River, and that he has two tributaries running to 1t 
respectively the Luchuro and the Ingezi. Speke, so wonderfully corrects 
with a mind which grasped geographical knowledge with great acutench 
and arranged the details with clever precision and accuracy, is seriously 
in error in calling this noble river Kitangule. Neither Waganda nor 
Wanyamba know it by that name, but they all know the Kagera Rivers 
which flows near Kitangule. From its mouth to Urundi it is know? by 
the natives on both banks as the Kagera River. The Luchuro, ye 
rather Lukaro, means “higher up,” but is no name of any river. 
the Ingezi I shall have occasion to speak further on. : 
While exploring the Victoria Lake T ascended a few miles up the cee 
era, and was then struck with its great volume and depth, so much in 
as to rank it as the principal affluent of the Victoria Lake. gm 
coming south, and crossing it at Kitangule, I sounded it and found 10 
teen fathoms of water, or eighty-four feet deep, and one hun 
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