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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION 
Between Kasawa and Kipimpi Capes there are deep 
bays, which I have taken the liberty of calling the 
Cameron Bays.* A sterile and bleached country 
stretches on every hand around these bays, and the 
general appearance of their sterility is somewhat in- 
creased by the chalky character of some of the low 
cliffs. 
North of the river Rufuvu extends Uemba. Ruemba 
— the country of the lake L’iemba— in the language of 
the great Bisa tribe, which all speak, with slight differ- 
ences of dialect, in this region, signifies ££ lake.” Ma- 
pota River separates Uemba from Marungu. 
Between Kipimpi Cape and Kalambwe Cape, King 
Muriro, or “ Fire,” an immigrant from Unyamwezi, has, 
with the aid of a colony of restless spirits, established a 
formidable village called Akalunga, close to the lake. 
It is a resort for slavers, for Muriro has numbers of 
slaves on hand to exchange for powder and guns, and 
his people are always roving about on the look-out for 
more. 
From Kalambwe Cape northward the mountains loom 
higher and steeper, the shore is indented with many 
narrow inlets, vertical strata of greenstone being thus 
exposed, with thin forests crowning the loose soil which 
covers them. The depressions between the hilltops are 
numerous and shallow, consequently the drainage is 
quickly carried away in small rills. 
Beyond the Mapota the scenery becomes still bolder, 
and the more imposing woods impart with their varied 
hues of foliage and waving crowns a picturesqueness 
that since leaving Fipa has been wanting in the land- 
scape of the stupendous and upspringing, terraced 
plateau wall of Western Urungu, or in the uniform 
contours of Eastern Urungu. 
At a camp near an inlet north of Kalambwe Cape we 
set fire to some grass to have a more open view of our 
surroundings. In an hour it had ascended the steep 
slope, and was raging triumphantly on the summit. 
* So called after Verney Lovett Cameron, Commander, E.N., the first 
to navigate the southern half of Lake Tanganika. 
