UJIJI AND TANGANIKA. 
365 
that those rocks of Mpimbwe should bear witness to the 
lake’s subsidence. 
On the 25th of June, after coasting the western side 
of this extraordinary range and proceeding south some 
fifteen or sixteen miles, we arrived at Mkerengi Island, 
in the bay of Kirando ; the large island of Makokomo 
lying to west of us a mile off. The natives of these 
parts are very amiable, though extremely superstitious. 
At the north-west end of Makokomo there is another 
lately submerged island. Close to the south-west end 
MANYEMA WOMEN. 
is a group of inhabited islands, Kankamba and Funeh 
being the largest and most fertile. 
Kirando is situated among other large villages in 
what appears to be a plain, hemmed in on the east by 
the continuation of the mountain ridges which we lost 
sight of when we left Karema Bay. The truncated cone 
of Chakavola terminates the ridge of Mpimbwe, and lies 
north-east from Mkerengi. 
Continuing our voyage southerly along the coast be- 
tween the isles of Kankamba and its brothers and the 
