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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



The last feature of importance in Karagwah is the 

 Kitangure River on its northern frontier. This stream, 

 deriving its name from a large settlement on its banks, 

 according to some travellers flows through a rocky- 

 trough, according to others it traverses a plain. Some, 

 again, make it thirty yards, others 600, and even half a 

 mile, in breadth. All these statements are reconcileable. 

 The river issues from Higher Urundi, not far from the 

 Malagarazi ; but whilst the latter, engaged in the De- 

 pression of Central Africa, is drawn towards the 

 Tanganyika, the former, falling into the counterslope, is 

 directed to the north-east into the Nyanza Lake. Its 

 course would thus lie through a mountain-valley, from 

 which it issues into a lacustrine plain, the lowlands of 

 Unyoro and Uganda. The dark and swift stream 

 must be crossed in canoes even during the dry season, 

 but, like the Malagarazi, about June or at the end of 

 the rains, it debords over the swampy lands of its 

 lower course. 



From the Kitangure River fifteen stations conduct 

 the traveller to Kibuga, the capital district of Uganda, 

 and the residence of its powerful despot. The maxi- 

 mum of these marches would be six daily, or a total of 

 ninety rectilinear geographical miles. Though there 

 are no hills, the rivers and rivulets — said to be upwards 

 of a hundred in number — offer serious obstacles to 

 rapid travelling. Assuming then, the point where 

 the Kitangure River is crossed to be in S. lat. 1° 

 14', Kibuga may be placed in S. lat. 0° 10'. Beyond 

 Weranhanja no traveller with claims to credibility has 

 seen the Nyanza water. North of Kibuga all is uncer- 

 tain ; the Arabs were not permitted by Suna, the last 

 despot, to penetrate farther north. 



The two first marches from the Kitangure River 



