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yembe : between them and the southern races there is 

 a marked physical difference. Their heads are of a 

 superior cast : the regions where the reflective faculties 

 and the moral sentiments, especially benevolence, are 

 placed, rise high ; the nose is more of the Caucasian 

 type ; the immoderate masticating apparatus which 

 gives to the negro and the lower negroid his peculiar 

 aspect of animality, is greatly modified, and the expres- 

 sion of the countenance is soft, kindly, and not deficient 

 in intelligence. 



From Unyanyembe to Kibuga, the capital of Uganda, 

 are fifty-three stages, which are distributed into four 

 crucial stations of Usui, Karagwah, dependent Unyoro, 

 and Uganda. A few remarks concerning each of these 

 divisions may not be unacceptable. 



Between Unyanyembe and Usui are sixteen long, or 

 nineteen short, stages. Though the road is for the 

 most part rough and hilly, the marches can scarcely be 

 reduced below ten statute, or six rectilinear geo. miles 

 per diem ; in fact, the geographer's danger when making 

 these estimates is, that of falling, through fear of exag- 

 geration, into the opposite and equally incorrect extreme. 

 The general direction of the line leading from Kazeh, 

 in Unyanyembe, to Karagwah, pointed out by Snay 

 bin Amir, bore 345° (corrected 332°); the length of 

 the nineteen marches would be about 115 geo. miles. 

 The southern frontier of Usui may, therefore, be safely 

 placed in S. lat. 3° 10'. 



The route from Kazeh to Usui falls at once westward 

 of the line leading to the Nyanza Lake ; it diverges, 

 however, but little at first, as they both traverse the 

 small districts of Ulikampuri, Unyambewa, and Ukuni. 

 Usonga, crossed in five short marches, is the first consi- 

 derable district north of Unyanyembe. Thence the 



