308 TRUE LEVEL OE THE TANGANYIKA. 



on scientific geographical reasons/ in fact, out of 

 the depths of his self-consciousness, and he sup- 

 plemented it with a Lake Eusizi. I saw it grow- 

 ing up under his hands, as copy followed copy : 

 I repeatedly ohjected to it, yet it managed to 

 deform the maps of Central Africa for years 

 afterwards. It threw us once more hack into 

 the romantic geography of the Arahs, who wove 

 , into one line Jebel Kumri, and transferred north 

 of the equator the scattered ranges which Ptolemy 

 (iv. 9) disposed at the antarctic end of his 

 habitable Africa. These, going from east to west, 

 are represented by Barditon Oros (S. lat. IG'^) 

 Meskhe or Ineskki, the Kegion of Agysimba (S. 

 lat. 13'^), Xipha or Ziphar (S. lat. 8^^ 20' 5"), 

 Daukhis Oros (S. lat. 13^), and Ion, the mountain 

 of the Hesperian ^Ethiopians (S. lat. 8^ 20' 5"). 



The second objection was the elevation of the 

 Tanganyika Lake. Its low level in the great 

 central plateau proved, however, to be a mere 

 mistake : only one observation was made, and 

 that gave but 1844 feet above the sea. But 

 presently Mr Pindlay found a pencil memoran- 

 dum by Capt. Speke, showing that when he 

 again reached the coast our thermometer, a com- 

 mon bath instrument, used because all the others 

 had been broken, boiled at 214° (F.) instead of 



