THE NILE AND LUTA-NZIGE LAKE. 
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we did not feel that the two hemispheres had been 
thoroughly united by our efforts. Our first move was 
to make the junction with these traders at Faloro. 
We were told that the water route was impracticable, 
and we afterwards found this to be the case, owing to 
the cataracts on the river between Chopeh and Madi. 
Were it not for these, our informants told us we 
might proceed the whole way by water. This intelli- 
gence, together with our own observations of the level 
nature of the country, enabled Speke to map the bend 
of the Nile, which we were not able to visit, it being 
entirely off our direct route, and within the province 
of a rebel chief. 
One of the king's officers had travelled to the Masai 
country, to the east of Kamarasfs, and he said we 
might do the same, if his king gave us a particular 
horn filled with charms to be carried at the head of 
our party. This, with 600 iron hoes, giving two to 
each chief of a district, would enable us to get through 
the unexplored country without molestation. 
This man also spoke a good deal about the Lweet- 
an-zigeh (the Luta-nzige of Speke), an immense body 
of water some marches away to the south-west, and 
extending back towards Karague. He thought we 
should take twenty days to reach it ; but a M ganda 
would go the distance in half that time. This is the 
lake whose position we expect the enterprising Sam 
Baker to ascertain, as we gave him a map of its general 
direction, and he would also be enabled to verify the 
latitude and altitude of that portion of our journey 
over which he might pass. When last heard of, he had 
manfully gone back on our track and reached Kama- 
rasi's. God grant that he may be spared to return. 
