BOUND LAKE VICTORIA NYANZA. 
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lowed the hippopotami. I shot one of the monitors, 
and it measured seven feet from the tip of the snout to 
the tip of the tail. One of the boat’s crew skinned it, 
but, not having means or time to preserve it, we were 
finally compelled to abandon our treasure. Being 
extremely keen-eyed and agile in its movements, the 
monitor is a valuable auxiliary to the more indolent 
crocodile, which it wakes frequently from slumber, and 
by its impetuous rush at sight of the intruder saves it 
from becoming a prey to the hunter. In return for its 
services the greater monster furnishes it with many a 
delicious meal on its eggs. The enormous number of 
smaller lizards, skinks, and geckos, which these islets 
UGOGO, FISH FOUND IN LAKE VICTORIA. 
also sustain, prove that the monitors have abundant 
means of supplies. 
From here we sailed round the coast of Wiru, and 
leaving about four miles on our left the Kuneneh group, 
we steered N.N.W. Mag. for the Irangara Islands, at 
the north-western extremity of IJkerewe, the shore 
presenting to our view throughout only a low hill range 
clothed with woods. Leaving Irangara behind us, we 
emerged in view of the vast amplitude, as though of 
ocean, of the Victoria Nyanza.* 
* Out of respect to the memory of Captain Speke, I leave the word 
Nyanza as he spelled it, adding only the explanation that none but the 
Arabs and Wangwana pronounce it N’yanza. All the native tribes and 
nations round the lake pronounce it either Nee-vanja or Nee-yanza, 
Niyanja or Niyanza. 
