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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
informed of my intended visit, Hamed Ibrahim and 
Sayid bin Sayf accompanied me on an official visit to 
Eumanika, king of Karagwe, and a tributary of Mtesa, 
Emperor of Uganda. 
Ivafurro, according to aneroid, is 3950 feet above the 
ocean. Ascending the steep slope of the mountain west 
of Kafurro, we gained an altitude of 5150 feet, and half 
an hour afterwards stood upon a ridge 5350 feet above 
the sea, whence we obtained a most grand and imposing- 
view. Some 600 feet below us was a grassy terrace 
overlooking the small Windermere Lake, 1000 feet 
below, its placid surface rivalling in colour the azure of 
the cloudless heaven. Across a narrow ridge we looked 
upon the broad and papyrus-covered valley of the 
Alexandra, whilst many fair, blue lakelets north and 
south, connected by the winding silver line of the 
Alexandra Nile, suggested that here exploring work of 
a most interesting character was needed to understand 
the complete relations of lake, river, and valley to one 
another. 
Beyond the broad valley rose ridge after ridge, 
separated from each other by deep parallel basins, or 
valleys, and behind these, receding into dim and vague 
outlines, towered loftier ridges. About sixty miles off, 
to the north-west, rose a colossal sugar-loaf clump of 
enormous altitude, which I was told was the Ufumbiro 
mountains. From their northern base extended Mpororo 
country and to the south, Luanda. 
At the northern end of the Windermere Lake, an 
irregular range, which extends north to Ugoi, terminates 
in the dome-like Mount Isossi. South of where I stood, 
and about a mile distant, was the bold mount of Kaz- 
wiro, and about thirty miles beyond it I could see the 
irregular and confused masses of the Kishakka moun- 
tains. 
On the grassy terrace below us was situated Eu- 
manika’s village, fenced round by a strong and circular 
stockade, to which we now descended after having en- 
joyed a noble and inspiriting prospect. 
( )ur procession was not long in attracting hundreds of 
