THE DOWN-MARCH. 



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tended greatly improved my health : the state of 

 our finances, however, compelled us to set out 

 without delay from Ujiji to Kazeh. The rains 

 had ceased on May 15, and the return (June 11) 

 by a straighter and more southerly road, was far 

 less unpleasant than the up-march. After a 

 short interval for repose, and for recovering his 

 sight and hearing, Capt. Speke volunteered to 

 explore a lake reported to lie north, and known 

 to the Arabs as ' Ukerewe,' or Island-land. I 

 had heard of it in Zanzibar Island as a water 

 called ' Karagoa,' parallel with and one month 

 west of the Sea of Ujiji. A signal disappoint- 

 ment at the ' Ziwa ' ^ of Ugogo, which proved to 

 be a mere pond, made me suspect the informants : 

 yet Snay bin Amir and Musa Mzuri had both 

 visited the mountain regions to its west, and their 

 observations were represented in the sketch map, 

 1858, which, I repeat, is far less incorrect than 

 the exaggerated growth of 1859.- I was, how- 



• This word means a lake or pond, not the ' river of the 

 lake.' Its plural is not AVaziwa — \va being the animate prefix 

 — but Maziwa (e. g. Maziwa Mengi, many lakes). It is not 

 used by the Wasawahili to signify the south. An Arab would 

 not make the plural Ziwahah (but Ziwat or Ziwam, it" he at- 

 tempted such barbarism) ; nor would he want to use the ad- 

 jective ' Ziwai.' These five errors occur in as many lines. 

 (Geography of N'yassi, 24, 25.) 



^ Yet, curious to say, the map of May, 185S, was drawn from 



