134 THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



A Mnyamwezx. A Mjiji. Mugungu Mhaya, 



" the wicked whrte man." 



A Mgogo. Ferry Boat 



on the Malagarazi River. A Mzaramo. 



CHAP. XV. 



THE TANGANYIKA LAKE AND ITS PEPJPLUS. 



The Tanganyika Lake, though situated in the unex- 

 plored centre of Intertropical Africa, and until 1858 

 unvisited by Europeans, has a traditionary history of 

 its own, extending through more than three centuries. 



" Accounts of a great sea in the interior of Africa ob- 

 tained (partially from native travellers) at Congo and 

 Sofala," reached the Portuguese settlements on both 

 shores of the continent.* The details of de Barros 



* Mr. Cooley's 'Memoir on the Geography of N'yassi,' p. 1. (Vol. XV. of 

 1845, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.) The extracts from 

 Portuguese history in the text are entirely taken from that learned paper, 



