THE UKARA LAKES, 



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laying down the length of these distant and 

 dangerous cruises exaggeration would be excess- 

 ive. "We may therefore fairly assume the semi- 

 circumference of the Ukara Lake at 120 miles, 

 and the total circumference at 2i0. 



As regards its breadth we read (p. 310): 

 ' Standing on the eastern shore Sadi said he 

 could descry nothing of land in a western direc- 

 tion except the very faint outline of a mountain 

 summit far, far away on the horizon.' This pass- 

 age is valuable. The level and sandy eastern 

 shore of the Ukara or Nyanja Lake about Baha- 

 ri-ni, where Sadi sighted it, is in E. long. (G.) 

 35^ 15'. The easternmost, that is to say, the 

 nearest point of the Karagwah highlands, or, as 

 Captain Speke writes it, Karague, is in E. long. 

 (G.) 32° 30'. Thus the minimum width is 165 

 miles, while man's vision would hardly cover a 

 score. Here, again, we have room for a double in- 

 stead of a single lake. When Sadi declared that 

 he ' travelled 60 days (marches ?) along the shore 

 without perceiving any signs of its termination,' 

 he spoke wildly, as Africans will, and when he 

 reported that the natives with whom he con- 

 versed were unable to give him any information 

 about its northern or southern limit, we can 

 only infer that in those parts of the African in- 



