LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY ON LAKE TANGAN1KA. 1G3 
can it be, navigable for anything but the smallest 
canoes. The only thing remarkable about it is that it 
abounds in crocodiles, but not one hippopotamus was 
seen ; which may be taken as another evidence of its 
shallowness. The bays to the east of the Rusizi are of 
the same conformation as those on the west. Carefully 
judging from the width of the several bays from point 
to point, and of the several spits which separate them, 
the breadth of the lake may be said to be about twelve 
or fourteen miles. Had we contented ourselves with 
simply looking at the conformation, and the meeting of 
the eastern and western ranges, we should have said 
that the lake ended in a point, as Captain Speke had 
sketched it on his map. But its exploration dissolved 
that idea. Chamati Hill is the extreme northern ter- 
mination of the western range, and seems, upon a super- 
ficial examination, to abut against the Ramata moun- 
tains of the eastern range, which are opposite Chamati ; 
but a valley about a mile in breadth separates the two 
ranges, and through this valley the Rusizi flows towards 
the lake.* Though Chamati terminates the western 
range, the eastern range continues for miles beyond, 
north-westerly. After its issue from this broad gorge, 
the Rusizi runs seemingly in a broad and mighty stream, 
through a wide alluvial plain, its own formation, in a 
hundred channels, until, approaching the lake, it flows 
into it by three channels only, as above described. 
I should not omit to state here, that though the 
Doctor and I have had to contend against the strong 
current of the Rusizi River, as it flowed swift and strong 
into the Tanganika, the Doctor still adheres to the 
conviction that, whatever part the Rusizi plays, there 
must be an outlet to the Tanganika somewhere, from 
the fact that all fresh-water lakes have outlets. The 
Doctor is able to state his opinions and reasons far 
better than I can find for him ; and, lest I misconstrue 
* After the patient investigation of the North encl of the Lake, and 
satisfying ourselves by personal observation that the Rusizi ran into the 
Lake, the native rumour which Sir Samuel Baker brought home that the 
Tanganika and the Albert N’Yanza have a water connection still finds 
many believers ! 
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