LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY ON LAKE TANGANIKA. 135 
Our ship — though nothing more than a cranky canoe 
hollowed out of a noble mvule tree of Ugoma — was an 
African Argo, bound on a nobler enterprise than its 
famous Grecian prototype. We were bound upon no 
mercenary errand, after no Golden Fleece, but perhaps 
to discover a highway for commerce which should bring 
the ships of the Nile up to Ujiji, Usowa, and far 
Marungu. We did not know what we might discover 
on our voyage to the northern head of the Tanganika ; 
WEAPONS OF WAN. 
we supposed that we should find the Rusizi to be an 
effluent of the Tanganika, flowing down to the Albert 
or the Victoria N’Yanza. We were told by natives and 
Arabs that the Rusizi ran out of the lake. 
Sayd bin Majid had stated that his canoe would carry 
twenty -five men, and 3,500 lbs. of ivory. Acting upon 
this information, we embarked twenty-five men, several 
of whom had stored away bags of salt for the purposes 
of trade with the natives ; but upon pushing off from the 
shore near Ujiji, we discovered the boat was too heavily 
