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visited them to obtain fish in exchange for milk and. 
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vegetables. They also stated that the Mworongo — or, 
as others called it, Nawarongo — river flows through the 
heart of Ruanda from the Ufumbiro mountains, and 
enters the Kagera in a south-west by west direction 
from Ihema ; that the Akanyaru was quite a large lake, 
a three days’ journey round in canoes, and separated 
Ruanda, Uhha, and Urundi from each other ; that there 
was an island in the midst, where canoes leaving Uhha 
were accustomed to rest at night, arriving in Ruanda at 
noon. 
They were a genial people those islanders of Ihema, 
but they were subject to two painful diseases, leprosy 
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and elephantiasis. The island was of a shaly substruc- 
ture, covered with a scant depth of alluvium. The 
water of the Lake Ihema was good and sweet to the 
taste, though, like all the waters of the Alexandra Nile, 
distinguished for its dull brown iron colour. 
We began from the extreme south end of the lake the 
next day to coast along the Muvari or Ruanda coast, 
and near a small village attempted to land, but the 
natives snarled like so many spiteful dogs, and drew 
their bows, which compelled us — being guests of Ru- 
manika — to sheer off and leave them in their ferocious 
exclusiveness. 
Arriving at the Kagera again, we descended it, and 
