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the vicinity of the villages, produces only euphorbia, 
thorny gum, acacia, and aloetic plants. 
On the 9th we pulled abreast of Kankorogo Island, 
and, through a channel from 500 to 800 yards wide, 
directed our course to the Ivagera, up which we had to 
contend against a current of two knots and a half an 
hour. 
The breadth of the river varied from fifty to 100 
yards. The average depth of all the ten soundings we 
made on this day was fifty-two feet along the middle ; 
close to the papyrus walls, which grew like a forest above 
us, was a depth of nine feet. Sometimes we caught a 
view of hippopotamus creeks running up for hundreds 
of yards on either side through 
the papyrus. At Kagayyo, on 
the left bank, we landed for a 
short time to take a view of the 
scene around, as, while in the 
river, we could see nothing ex- 
cept the papyrus, the tops of the 
mountain ridges of Karagwe, and 
the sky. 
We then learned for the first 
time the true character of what 
we had imagined to be a valley 
when we gazed upon it from 
the summit of the mountain between Kafurro and 
Eumanika’s capital. 
The Ingezi, as the natives called it, embraces the 
whole space from the base of the mountains of Muvari 
to that of the Karagwe ridges with the river called 
Kagera, the Funzo or the papyrus, and the Rwerus or 
lakes, of which there are seventeen, inclusive of Winder- 
mere. Its extreme width between the bases of the 
opposing mountains is nine miles ; the narrowest part is 
about a mile, while the entire acreage covered by it from 
Morongo or the falls in Iwanda, north, to Uhimba, 
south, is about 350 square miles. The Funzo or papyrus 
covers a depth of from nine feet to fourteen feet of 
water. Each of the several lakes has a depth of from 
A NATIVE OF UHHA. 
