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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
the subject, I shall leave it until he has an opportunity 
to explain them himself ; which his great knowledge of 
Africa will enable him to do with advantage. 
One thing is evident to me, and I believe to the 
Doctor, that Sir Samuel Baker will have to curtail the 
Albert N’Yanza by one, if not two degrees of latitude. 
That well-known traveller has drawn his lake far into 
the territory of the Waruncli, while Ruanda has been 
placed on the eastern side ; whereas a large portion of 
it, if not all, should be placed north of what he has 
designated on his map as Usige, The information of 
such an intelligent man as Ruhinga is not to be de- 
spised ; for, if Lake Albert came within a hundred miles 
of the Tanganika, he would surely have heard of its 
existence, even if he had not seen it himself. Originally 
he came from Mutumbi, and he has travelled from that 
country into Mugihewa, the district he now governs. 
He has seen Mwezi, the great King of Uruncli, and 
describes him as a man about forty years old, and as a 
very good man. 
Our work was now done ; there was nothing more to 
detain us at Mugihewa. Ruhinga had been exceedingly 
kind, and given us one ox after another to butcher and 
eat. Mukamba had done the same. Their women had 
supplied us with an abundance of milk and butter, and 
we had now bounteous supplies of both. 
The Doctor had taken a series of observations for 
latitude and longitude ; and Mugihewa was made out to 
be in 3° 19' S. latitude. 
On the 7th December, early in the morning, we left 
Mugihewa, and rowing past the southern extremity of 
the Katangara Islands, we approached the highlands of 
Uaslii, near the boundary line between Mukamba’s 
country and Uvira. The boundary Hue is supposed to 
be a wide ravine, in the depths of which is a grove of 
tall, beautiful, and straight-stemmed trees, out of which 
the natives make their canoes. 
Passing Kanyamabengu River, which issues into the 
lake close to the market-ground of Kirabula, the extreme 
point of Burton and Speke’s explorations of the Tan- 
