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the burning down of some grass required for pasture 

 by the wild men. Words led to blows; the caravan, 

 having but two or three pounds of gunpowder, was 

 soon dispersed ; seven or eight merchants lost their 

 lives, and a few made their escape to Unyanyembe. 

 Before our departure from Kazeh, the slaves of Salim 

 bin Rashid, having rescued one of the wounded sur- 

 vivors, who had been allowed by the Wamasai to 

 wander into Urudi, brought him back to Kazeh. He 

 described the country as no longer practicable. In 

 1858 also the same trading party, the principal 

 authority for these statements, were relieved of several 

 bales of cloth, during their sleep, when bivouacking 

 upon an inhabited island near the eastern shore. 



The altitude, the conformation of the Nyanza Lake, 

 the argilaceous colour and the sweetness of its waters, 

 combine to suggest that it may be one of the feeders of 

 the White Nile. In the map appended to M. Brun- 

 Rollet's volume, before alluded to, the large water west 

 of the Padongo tribe, which clearly represents the 

 Nyanza or Ukerewe, is, I have observed, made to drain 

 northwards into the Fitri Lake, and eventually to swell 

 the main stream of the White River. The details sup- 

 plied by the Egyptian Expedition, which, about twenty 

 years ago, ascended the White River to 3° 22' N. lat., 

 and 31° 30' E. long., and gave the general bearing of the 

 river from that point to its source as south-east, with a 

 distance of one month's journey, or from 300 to 

 350 miles, would place the actual sources 2° S. lat., 

 and 35° E. long., or in 2° eastward of the southern 

 creek of the Nyanza Lake. This position would occupy 

 the northern counterslope of the Lunar Mountains, the 

 upper water-shed of the high region whose culminating 

 apices are Kilima-Ngao, Kenia, and Doengo Engai. The 



