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mounts, which bear a resemblance to one another. The 
first is called Mtombwa, the next Ivateye, the third Ka- 
pembwa. Their three spirits are also closely akin to 
one another, for they all rule the wave and the wind, 
and dwell on summits. Ivateye is, I believe, the son of 
Ivapembwa, the Jupiter, and Mtombwa, the Juno, of 
Tanganika tradition. 
As we row past close to their base, we look up to 
admire the cliffy heights rising in terraces one above 
another ; each terrace-ledge is marked by a thin line of 
scrubby bush. Beyond Kateye, the grey front of the 
paternal Kapembwa looms up with an extraordinary 
height and massive grandeur. 
From Kapembwa to Polombwe Cape the plateau 
merges in a cliff-crowned wall 1500 feet above the lake. 
The cliff itself is probably 200 feet high, rising above a 
slope bristling with great rocks half hidden by the ver- 
dure of trees, bush, and grass. Yet the natives cultivate 
some part, and their fields were seen far up the steep 
ascending slopes. 
On the 6th we left the neighbourhood of Polombwe, 
at a place called Umisepa, and rowed round into the 
Rufuvu river. 
This river is about 400 yards wide, and retains that 
width for about three miles — flowing with a current of 
a knot an hour, and between lofty wood-clothed moun- 
tains — and then broadens out into a lake-like expanse 
nearly a mile wide. From the right or south bank of 
the river, a plain slopes gradually to the grand cliffy 
walls of Kapembwa. From here to Liende village, 
where we camped, our course lay east-south-east. 
Here, as elsewhere, the water has encroached upon 
the soil, and has flooded a large portion of land formerly 
devoted to tillage. It is a populous spot, indeed the 
most populous we had seen since leaving Ujiji. Our 
reception by the people was most cordial, and I was not 
sorry to become acquainted with such gentle creatures. 
Not one angry word or insolent look was exchanged, 
but they visited us with the greatest confidence, and a 
lively interest for barter. We obtained such abundance 
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