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became the recipient of the very tender and fatherly 
kindness of the good man whose companion I now found 
myself. 
The next morning, having recovered slightly from the 
fever, when Mukamba came with a present of an ox, a 
sheep, and a goat, I was able to attend to the answers 
which he gave to the questions about the Rusizi River 
and the head of the lake. The ever cheerful and enthu- 
siastic Mgwana was there also, and he was not a whit 
YOUTHFUL WARKIOUS. 
abashed, when, through him, the chief told us that the 
Rusizi, joined by the Ruanda, or Luanda, at a distance 
of two days’ journey by water, or one day by land from 
the head of the lake, flowed into the lake. 
Thus our hopes, excited somewhat by the positive 
and repeated assurances that the river flowed out away 
towards Karagwah, collapsed as speedily as they were 
raised. 
We paid Mukamba the honga, consisting of nine doti 
and nine fundo of samsam, lungliio, muzurio n’zige. 
