SICKNESS. 



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him to read a Tratch, and I suddenly found my- 

 self helpless with paraplegia, a paralysis of the 

 extremities, which, according to Capt. Smee, 

 often follows febrile attacks at Zanzibar. 



After a total of some 537 rectilinear geogra- 

 phical miles ^ from the coast, we ascended, on 

 Peb. 13, 1858, the well-wooded range which 

 bounds the eastern waters of the ' Sea of Ujiji,' 

 and from the western declivity we sighted — 

 very imperfectly, it must be owned — the fair 

 expanse of a lake whose name was then unknown 

 to us. Some months afterwards, when reading 

 Dr Livingstone's first expedition, I found (chap, 

 xxiv.) that the traveller meeting a party of 

 Zanzibar Arabs at Xaliele in the centre of the 

 continent, heard of the ' Tanganyenka,' a ' large 

 shallow lake over which canoes were punted.' 

 At that time, however, I had sent to England 

 the picturesque native name 'Tanganyika,' the 

 * meeting-place of waters.'^ The sight was a 



1 The first expedition placed Kazeh in E. long. (G.) 33o 3' 0" 

 The second „ „ „ 33 1 34 



Difference ~0 1 26^ 

 The first expedition placed Ujiji in E. long. (G.) "30^^ 0^ 0^' 



The second „ „ 29 54 30 



Difference ~0 5 30 

 These close results place Captain Speke's positions beyond 

 all possibility of cavil. 



2 In Mr Wakefield's routes (loc. cit.) we find ' To Mtan- 

 ganjiko. — Kitawabili, meaning tbe place of mingling or mix- 



