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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
at 7 p.m. were in our little camp of Kazinga, at the 
south end of Windermere. 
On the 11th we rowed into the Kagera, and de- 
scended the river as far as Ugoi, and on the evening 
of the 12th returned once more to our camp on 
Windermere. 
The next day, having instructed Frank to convey the 
boat to Kafurro, I requested Rumanika to furnish me 
with guides for the Mtagata hot springs, and, faithful 
to his promise, thirty Wanyambu were detailed for the 
service. 
Our route lay north along the crest of a lofty ridge 
between Kafurro and Windermere. Wherever we 
looked, we beheld grassy ridges, grassy slopes, grassy 
mountain summits, and grassy valleys — an eminently 
pastoral country. In a few gorges or ravines the dark 
tops of trees are seen. 
When Windermere Lake and Isossi, its northern 
mount, were south of us, we descended into a winding 
grassy valley, and in our march of ten miles from Isossi 
to Kasya I counted thirty-two separate herds of cattle, 
which in the aggregate probably amounted to 900 head. 
We also saw seven rhinoceroses, three of which were 
white, and four a black brown. The guides wished me 
to shoot one, but I was scarce of ammunition, and as I 
could not get a certain shot, I was loath to wound un- 
necessarily, or throw away a cartridge. 
The next day, at 8 A.M., near the end of the valley, 
we came to Merure Lake, which is about two miles long, 
and thence, crossing three different mountains, arrived 
at Kiwandare mountain, and from its summit, 5600 feet 
above the sea, obtained a tolerably distinct view of the 
triple cone of Ufumbiro, in a west-nortli-west direction, 
Mag. I should estimate the distance from Kiwandere 
to Ufumbiro to be about forty-five miles, and about 
sixty miles from the mountain height above Rumanika’s 
capital. Several lines of mountains, with lateral valleys 
between, rose between the valley of the Alexandra Nile 
and Ufumbiro. 
From Kiwandare we descended gradually along its 
