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her Arab and slave inhabitants to cry out their fare- 
wells, and half an hour afterwards we are at the mouth 
of the Liuche river. 
The reason why Arabs, Wajiji, and Wangwana have 
been more than usually demonstrative is that they will 
not believe that such a frail structure as our boat will 
be able to endure the heavy waves of the Tanganika. 
They declared we should all be drowned, but our 
Wangwana have ridiculed their fears, and quoted her 
brilliant exploit round a lake twice the size of the 
Tanganika, and so at last they had come to be satisfied 
with a dismal “ Well, you shall see ! ” 
During nearly the whole of the next day our voyage 
to the south is along the forest-clad slopes of Ulambola 
and the tawny plains of Ukaranga, until we arrive at 
the mouth of the Malagarazi river. At 3 p.m. we rowed 
up river, which at the mouth is about 600 yards wide, 
and sends a turbid brown stream into the lake. When 
a continuous south-west wind blows, its waters are 
known to tinge the lake with its colour as far as Ujiji. 
The river soon narrows to 200 yards, and about five 
miles up to 150 yards. I sounded twice, and obtained 
over fifty feet each time. The southern bank is very 
mountainous, but on the opposite side stretches a plain 
until the detached ranges of Ukaranga become massed, 
about five miles from the lake, and, running easterly, 
form the northern bank of the river. 
On the 13th our voyage was along the bold mountain 
spurs of Kawendi, forming a steep, rock-bound coast, 
indented at frequent intervals with calm, pool-like bays, 
and their heights clothed with solemn woods. 
At noon we were off Kabogo’s lofty headland, and 
remembering that Dr. Livingstone had said that he 
■could find no bottom at 300 fathoms, I sounded a mile 
off shore, and found 109 fathoms. At two miles off I 
found no depth with 140 fathoms. I then fastened 
sixty fathoms more, but at 1200 feet obtained no 
bottom. 
About four miles south of dreaded Kabogo, on a 
narrow strip of sand, we beached our boat and canoe 
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