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and sometimes fire from their tops.” This district is 
called Susa, and is a portion of the Masai Land. All 
concurred in stating that no stream runs north, but 
that all waters for at least twenty days’ journey enter 
the lake. Beyond that distance lies a small lake which 
discharges a stream eastward — supposed by me to be 
the Pangani. 
On the 21st of March we were passing under the lee 
— for the wind blew then from the north-east, olf the 
land — of the dark headlands of Goshi, which at first 
rise steeply from the lake 900 feet and, later, receding 
from the lake, attain a height of from 2000 to 3000 
feet. On our left towered the tall, tree-clad island of 
Ugingo, extending far to the north-west. Thin blue 
columns of smoke rising from the depths of its woods 
announced the presence of man, probably fishermen or 
fugitives from the mainland. Judging from what 1 
observed of the slopes of this extremity of Ugeyeya, I 
should say that much of this portion is uninhabited. 
Rounding the point that confronts the island of Ugingo, 
we passed between two more uninhabited islands, and 
then the dome-like hills of Wakuneh burst upon our 
view. Our impression of the land on this side was that 
it was a pastoral country, and more thickly populated, 
for smoke curled more frequently from above depressions 
and sheltered positions. 
At evening we camped on Bridge Island, so named 
from a natural bridge of basaltic rock which forms an 
irregular arch of about twenty-four feet in length by 
about twelve feet in depth, and under which we were 
able to pass from one side of the island to the other. 
The island is covered with brush-wood and tall grass, 
and in the interstices of the rocks, where the vegetable 
deposit was of great depth, grew several fine mangroves. 
The height is about fifty feet above the lake, and from 
its summit we obtained a fine view of Ugingo Island, 
brooding in its gloomy solitude, and of the steep and 
high ranges of Ugeyeya, with the level plains of 
Wagansu and Wigassi extending eastward. To the 
west stretched an apparently boundless sea, its face 
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