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THE DISCOVERY. 



cordial : this one gleam of success consoled us, 

 made us forget the petty annoyances, the endless 

 worry, the hardship, and the sickness which we 

 had endured for it ; and we felt a sensible relief 

 from the grinding care which the prospect of 

 failure must ever present. 



Yet even the bright view of the blue waters 

 had its dark side : we had left the Louisa be- 

 hind, and we saw no way of navigating this 

 lake. Pteaching, on February 14, 1858, Kawele 

 of the Ujiji district, a market village and a 

 depot for ivory and slaves on the eastern side, 

 and about the northern third of the Tanganyika, 

 we housed our goods and began to cast about for 

 canoes. The only dau or sailing craft belonged 

 to Shaykh Hamid, an Arab trader then living at 

 Kasenge, a little insular station near the Western 

 shore. After making all necessary inquiries, I 

 despatched, on May 3, my companion with a 

 party of 26 men : he crossed the Tanganyika, but 

 in vain — the proprietor would not convoy us 

 round the lake, though we offered him £100 for 

 a fortnight's cruise. Captain Speke here met 

 with a strange accident : a beetle crept into his 



ture (rendezvous).' I cannot, however, but suspect that the 

 word is a misprint for Mtanganyika. At any rate it will com- 

 pletely support niy assertions versus Mr Cooley and the town 

 ot Zanganica, where no such things as towns exist. 



