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of meeting such dangerous plunderers as the Wasuku. 

 Similarly a ' two months' journey ' and ' going to Egypt/ 

 asserted by ' all authorities without exception, African and 

 Arab/ signify nothing but the total ignorance of the in- 

 formant concerning the country a few leagues beyond his 

 home. A lake 120 miles in length, that is to say, even a 

 little smaller than the Baringo is supposed to be, will amply 

 satisfy all requirements in this matter. 



Finally, we have Sadi's report that 8 or 9 years ago 

 (before 18G7 ?) the Ukara Lake was navigated by Europeans. 

 Certain very white men, we are told, who bought only short 

 ivories (Scrivellos), refusing long tusks, and who purchased 

 large quantities of eggs — Africans have learnt by some 

 curious process to connect Europeans with oophagy — came 

 up in a large vessel, carrying three masts and another in 

 front (bowsprit?), with many white cloths (sails). The 

 event took place only a month and a half before he 

 reached the Lake, and it is described with an exactness of 

 detail which seems to vouch for its truth. If this be a fact, 

 it is clear that the JSTyanja cannot be Captain Speke's 

 Nyanza, and that the visitors could not have made it via 

 his ' White Nile/ with its immense and manifold obstruc- 

 tions. But it may be that of which he heard (Journal, p. 

 333) from the ' Kidi officers/ who reported a high moun- 

 tain to rise behind the Asua (Nyarus ?) river, and a lake 

 navigated by the Gallas in very large vessels. We now 

 understand why the ' King 9 Mtesa (Ibid. p. 294) offered to 

 send the traveller home (to Zanzibar) in one month by a 

 frequented route, doubtless through the Wamasai and other 

 tribes living between the Nyanja and the Nyanza. Thus 

 Irungu of Uganda (Ibid. p. 187) expressed his surprise that 

 Captain Speke had come all the way round to that country, 



