142 AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
tends a broad alluvial plain, ricli beyond description, 
teeming with palms and plantains, and umbrageous 
trees. Villages are seen in clusters everywhere. Into 
this alluvial plain run the Luaba, or Ruaba River, on 
the north side of Cape Kitunda, and the Kasokwe, 
Namusinga, and Mshala Rivers, on the south side of the 
cape. All the deltas . of rivers emptying into the Tan- 
ganika are hedged in on all sides with a thick growth 
of rnatete, a gigantic species of grass, and papyrus. In 
UJIJI COW, TJNYAMWEZI COW, PAKIAII DOG, AND FAT-TAILED SHEEP. 
some deltas, as that of Luaba and Kasokwe, morasses 
have been formed, in which the rnatete and papyrus 
jungle is impenetrable. In the depths of them are 
quiet and deep pools, frequented by various aquatic 
birds, such as geese, ducks, snipes, widgeons, king- 
fishers and ibis, cranes and storks, and pelicans. To 
reach their haunts is, however, a work of great diffi- 
culty to the sportsman in quest of game ; a work often 
attended with great danger, from the treacherous nature 
of these morasses, as well as from the dreadful attacks 
