198 AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
we pulled to windward, far out of the reach of bow or 
sling, and at dusk made for a small island to which we 
moored our boat, and there camped in security. 
From our little island off Maheta, we sailed at the 
dawn of day towards the low shores, and were making 
good progress, when we bumped over the spine of a 
rising hippopotamus, who frightened by this strange 
and weighty object on his back, gave a furious lunge, 
and shook the boat until we all thought she would be 
shaken to pieces. The hippo, after this manifestation 
of disgust, rose a few feet astern, and loudly roared his 
defiance ; but after ex- 
periencing his great 
strength, we rowed away 
hard from his neighbour- 
O 
hood. 
About 10 a. m. we found 
ourselves abreast of the 
cones of Manyara, and 
discovered the Ions; and 
loft-ly promontory which 
had attracted our atten- 
tion ever since leaving 
Maheta to be the island 
of Usuguru, another, 
though larger, copy of 
Ugingo. Through a 
channel two miles broad we entered the bay of Manyara, 
bounded on the east by the picturesque hills of that 
country, on the north by the plain of Ugana, and on 
the west by Muiwanda and the long, narrow promontory 
of Chaga. This bay forms the extreme north-east 
corner of Lake Victoria, but strangers, travelling by 
land, would undoubtedly mistake it for a separate lake, 
as Usuguru, when looked at from this bay, seems to 
overlap the points of Chaga and Manyara. 
About six miles from the north-eastern extremity of 
the bay, we anchored on the afternoon of the 24th of 
March, about 100 yards from the village of Muiwanda. 
Here we found a people speaking the language of 
MUYAMWEZI PAGAZI. 
