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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



a marching rate of twenty-six geographical and rectili- 

 near miles (or, allowing for deviation, thirty-six statute 

 miles) per diem. When Da Couto (1565), quoting 

 the information procured by Francisco Barreto, during 

 his expedition in 1570, from some Moors (Arabs or 

 Wasawahili) at Patta and elsewhere, says that "from 

 Kilwa or Atondo (that is to say, the country of the 

 Watondwe) the other sea of Angola might be reached 

 with a journey of fifteen or twenty (150 or 200?) 

 leagues," he probably alludes to the Nyassa Lake, lying 

 south-westwards of Kilwa, not to the Tanganyika. Mr. 

 Cooley gives one itinerary, by Mohammed bin Nasur, an 

 old Arab merchant, enumerating seventy-one marches 

 from Buromaji (Mbuamaji) to Oha (Uhha), and a total 

 of eighty-three from the coast to the lake ; and a second 

 by a native of Monomoezi, Lief bin Said (a misprint for 

 Khalaf bin Said ?) sixty -two to Ogara (Ugala), which 

 is placed four or five days from Oha. In another page 

 he remarks that "from Buromaji, near Point Puna, to 

 Oha in Monomoezi is a journey of seventy-nine, or, in 

 round numbers, eighty days, the shores of the lake 

 being still six or eight days distant." This is the 

 closest estimate yet made. Mr. Macqueen, from the 

 itinerary of Lief bin Said, estimates the lake, from the 

 mouth of the river Pangani, at 604 miles, and seventy- 

 one days of total march. It is evident, from the pre- 

 ceding pages, that African authorities have hitherto 

 confounded the Nyanza, the Tanganyika, and the Nyassa 

 Lakes. Still, in the estimate of the distance between 

 the coast and Ujiji there is a remarkable and a most 

 deceptive coherence. 



Ujiji — also called Manyofo, which appears, however, 

 peculiar to a certain sultanat or district — is the name 

 of a province, not, as has been represented, of a single 



