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of him as to his knowledge. He chuckled when he saw 
me use my note-book, as though he had some large 
persona] interest in the number of notes I took. He 
appeared to be more and more delighted as their bulk 
increased, and triumphantly pointed out to the Arabs 
the immense superiority of the whites to them. 
He expressed himself as only too glad that I should 
explore his country. It was a land, he said, that white 
men ought to know. It possessed many lakes and 
rivers, and mountains and hot springs, and many other 
things which no other country could boast of. 
“ Which do you think best, Standee — Karagwe or 
Uganda ? ” 
“ Karagwe is grand, its mountains are high, and its 
valleys deep. The Ivagera is a grand river, and the 
lakes are very pretty. There are more cattle in Karag- 
we than in Uganda, except Uddu and Koki ; and game 
is abundant. But Uganda is beautiful and rich ; its 
banana plantations are forests, and no man need to fear 
starvation, and Mtesa is good — and so is Father Ru- 
manika,” I replied smiling to him. 
“ Do you hear him, Arabs ? Does he not speak well ? 
Yes, Karagwe is beautiful,” he sighed contentedly. 
“ But bring your boat up and place it on the Rweru 
(lake), and you can go up the river as far as Kisliakka, 
and down to Morongo (the falls), where the water is 
thrown against a big rock and leaps over it, and then 
goes down to the Kianja of Uganda. Verily, my river 
is a great one ; it is the mother of the river at Jinga 
(Ripon Falls). You shall see all my land ; and when 
you have finished the river, I will give you more to see 
— Mtagata’s hot springs ! ” 
By the 6th of March, Frank had launched the boat 
from the landing at Kazinga village on the waters of 
the Windermere Lake,* or the Rweru of Rumanika, and 
the next day Rumanika accompanied me in state to the 
water. Half-a-dozen heavy anklets of bright copper 
* This lake received this name from Captain Speke, because Colonel 
Grant, his companion, thought it resembled the Windermere Lake in 
England. 
