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Ms brother Ruhinga, whose country was at the head of 
the lake, we would send our canoe back for him, and 
that in the meanwhile we should ( leave two of our men 
with him, with their guns, to help defend him in case 
W arumashany a should attack him as soon as we were 
gone — we embarked and pulled across. In nine hours 
we had arrived at the head of the lake in Mugihewa, 
the country of Ruhinga, Mukamba’s elder brother. In 
looking back to where we had come from we perceived 
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that we had made a diagonal cut across from south-east 
to north-west, instead of having made a direct east 
and west course ; or, in other words, from Mugere — 
which was at least ten miles from the northernmost 
point of the eastern shore — we had come to Mugihewa, 
situated at the northernmost point of the western 
shore. Had we continued along the eastern shore, and 
so round the northern side of the lake, we should have 
passed by Mukanigi, the country of W arumashanya, and 
Usumbura of Simveh, his ally and friend. But by 
