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scribed as troublesome and overbearing : his bad ex- 

 ample has been imitated by his minor chiefs. 



The kingdom of Karagwah, which is limited on the 

 north by the Kitangure or Kitangule River, a great 

 western influent of the Nyanza Lake, occupies twelve 

 days in traversing. The usual estimate would thus 

 give it a depth of 72, and place the northern limit 

 bout 228 rectilinear geo. miles from Kazeh, or in 

 S. lat. 1° 40'. But the Kitangure River, according to 

 the Arabs, falls into the Nyanza diagonally from south- 

 west to north-east. Its embouchure will, therefore, not 

 be distant from the equator. The line of road is thus 

 described : After ascending the hills of Ruhembe the 

 route, deflecting eastward, pursues for three clays the 

 lacustrine plain of the Nyanza. At Tenga, the fourth 

 station, the first gradient of the Karagwah mountains is 

 crossed, probably at low levels, where the spurs fall 

 towards the lake. Kafuro is a large district where 

 merchants halt to trade, in the vicinity of Weranhanja, 

 the royal settlement, which commands a distant view of 

 the Nyanza. Nyakahanga, the eighth stage, is a 

 gradient similar to that of Tenga; and Magugi, the 

 tenth station, conducts the traveller to the northernmost 

 ridge of Karagwah. The mountains are described as 

 abrupt and difficult, but not impracticable for laden 

 asses : they are compared by the Arabs to the Rubeho 

 chain of Usagara. This would raise them about 4000 

 feet above the mean level of the Unyamwezi plateau 

 and the Nyanza water, and about 8000 feet above this 

 sea. Their surface, according to the Arabs, is alter- 

 nately earth and stone, the former covered with plan- 

 tains and huge timber-trees, the latter bare, probably by 

 reason of their altitude. There are no plains, bush, or 

 jungle, but the deep ravines and the valleys intersecting 



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