APPENDIX. 



THE UKARA OR UKEREWE LAKE. 



A DEDUCTION FROM THE REV. MR WAKEFIELD'S ' ROUTES.' 



The following paper was read out on December 11, 1871, 

 before a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Major- 

 General Sir Henry Rawlinson, President of the Society, 

 being in the chair. 



Much light had been lately thrown upon the dark 

 points of Eastern Africa, especially those which gather 

 round the much- vexed Ethiopic Olympus, Kilima-njaro, 

 by the labours of the Rev. Thomas Wakefield. This 

 gentleman, we are informed (Preface by Mr Samuel S. 

 Barton, General Mission Secretary, to ' Footprints in Eastern 

 Africa.' London: Reed, 1866), was one of four missionaries 

 sent out to Mombasah in 1861 by the United Methodist Free 

 Churches under charge of Dr Krapf, who first established 

 the now world-renowned ' Mombas Mission.' After a 

 residence of five years he published the interesting series 

 of ' Notes on a Visit to the Southern Galas ' above alluded 

 to ; and in 1866-7, accompanied by the Rev. C. New, 

 he marched from Mombasah to Upokomo, on the Dana 

 river. He is therefore an African traveller of some experi- 

 ence ; and as he has evidently mastered the Kisawahili 

 tongue, he is unusually well qualified to supervise and to 



