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General Notes. 
- GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS: 
Africa.—GaRENGANZE.—Garenganze, the land ruled by Mshidi, 
between Lakes Mwero and Tanganyika, has recently been visited both 
from the east and from the west. Mr. Alfred Sharpe, proceeding from 
Lake Tanganyika, discovered west of that lake and east of Mwero 
another Mwero into which run the rivers Mkabe, Mwambezi, the 
Choma from the north, and the Chisela from the north-east. This lake 
is now partially desiccated, and consists of an extensive salt-marsh with 
several pools of water, including a large central one about fifteen miles 
long by ten wide. The former outlet of this lake was by the Movu 
river-bed to the Kalongwizi River, a feeder of Lake Mwero. Kazembe, 
the powerful chief who resides on the Luapula, above Lake Mwero, | 
though very polite to the traveller, would not permit him to cross 
because of his enmity to Mshidi, so that, finding all attempts useless, 
Mr. Sharpe was compelled to retrace his steps to Abdallah’s near the 
salt-marsh, and from thence to make his way westward round the north 
of Lake Mwero. Abdallah is an agent of the famous Tippo Tib, and 
bears sway eastward as far as Kabunda, near Tanganyika. The high- 
est point between Chipenbiri, on the level of the swamp, ( 3050 feet ) 
and Lake Mwero, is at an elevation of 3850 feet. The éastern water- 
shed of the northern part of Mwero is not more than six to eight miles 
from the shore, and that lake is 2900 feet above the sea. The streams 
Luao and Luchinda flow into the lake from the north, and Mpweto’s 
town, east of the Luabula, is subject to Abdallah. The Luapula, at 
its point of exit from the lake, is of less volume than above. Beyond 
the lake rises one of those plateaux so frequent in Africa, and the 
country beyond this, after passing Chuako (subject to Mpweto ), 
belongs to Mshidi. The Luvule River falls into the Luapula not far 
from its exit, and the next river reached after crossing the watershed 
is the Luvula, an affluent of the Lufira, into which it falls a few miles 
above the junction of the Lufira with the Likulwe, from its left bank. 
The Lufira itself like the Lapula, is a tributary of the Congo. The 
soil of Garenganze is rich, butthe country shadeless. Mshidi is now an 
old man; originally he was a trader from the Wa-Nyamyezi, but 
became chief. He has many wives. On his return by the same route 
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