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into the river were unmistakably turned from the lake, 
and that the weed set in the same direction. Wild 
date-palms grew thickly down the river.” 
In opposition to this statement of Cameron’s was the 
evidence taken by me at Ujiji. 
Para, his guide, said that the white man could not 
have seen the river flowing towards Rua, because it did 
not. 
Ruango, the veteran guide, declared that he had 
crossed it five times, that it was a small river flowing 
into the Tanganika, and that if I found it to flow in a 
contrary direction, he would return me all his hire. 
Natives from the Lukuga banks whom we found in 
Ujiji asserted positively that there were two Lukugas, 
one flowing into Lake Tanganika, the other into Rua. 
Muini Kheri, governor of Ujiji, Mohammed bin 
Gharib, Muini Hassan, Bana Makombe, and Wadi 
Safeni, all of whom had travelled across this Lukuga 
river, also declared, in the most positive manner, that 
during the many times they had crossed the “ Lukuga 
they either passed over it on dry land or were ferried 
in canoes across the entrance, which appeared to them 
only an arm of the lake ; that until the white man had 
come to Ujiji, they had never heard of an outflowing 
river, nor did they believe there was one. 
The positiveness of their manner and their testimony, 
so utterly at variance with what Commander Cameron 
had stated, inspired me with the resolution to explore 
the phenomenon thoroughly, and to examine the entire 
coast minutely. At the same time, a suspicion that 
there was no present outlet to the Tanganika had crept 
into my mind, when I observed that three palm-trees, 
which had stood in the market-place of Ujiji in November 
1871, were now about 100 feet in the lake, and that 
the sand beach over which Livingstone and I took our 
morning walks was over 200 feet in the lake. 
I asked of Muini Kheri and Sheikh Mohammed if my 
impressions were not correct about the palm-trees, and 
they both replied readily in the affirmative. Muini 
Kheri said also, as corroborative of the increase of the 
