258 THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. 



Sultan Kiringawana, we prudently forded the Yovu, and 

 placed its bed between ourselves and the enemy. The 

 Yovu, which bisects the basin of Kisanga from N. to S. 

 and passes by the S.E. into the Rwaha, was then about 



Rutita Pass m Usagara. 



four feet deep ; it flowed down a muddy bed laced with 

 roots, and its banks, whence a putrid smell exhaled, were 

 thick lines of sedgy grass which sheltered myriads of 

 mosquitos. Ascending an eminence to the left of the 

 stream, we obtained lodgings, and at once proceeded to 

 settle kuhonga with the chief, Kiringawana. 



The father, or, according to others, the grandfather of 

 the present chief, a Mnyamwezi of the ancient Wakala- 

 ganza tribe, first emigrated from his home in Usagozi, 

 and, being a mighty elephant-hunter and a powerful 

 wizard, he persuaded by arts and arms the Wasagara, 

 who allowed him to settle amongst them, to constitute 

 him their liege lord. The actual Kiringawana, having 

 spent his heir-apparent days at Zanzibar, returned to 

 Kisanga on the death of his sire, and reigned in his 



