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AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION. 
difference between the noise they created and that 
which a number of villagers might make while quarrel- 
ling. 
The Rubuko, or Lofuko, a considerable river, divides 
Marungu from Tembwe. On the south side of the river 
is Mompara, or, for short, Para, remarkable as being 
the place whereat Livingstone embarked in canoes, 
February 1869, to proceed to Ujiji for the first time 
(‘ Last Journals,’ vol. ii.) : — 
“ lUh February, 1869. — Arrived at Tanganika. Parra 
is the name of the land at the confluence of the river 
Lofuko.” 
The chief of the Para village is patronized by Jumah 
Merikani, who, while he is absent in Rua collecting 
slaves and ivory, entrusts his canoes to the chiefs 
charge, from which it appears that the latter is a trust- 
worthy man. Formerly Sheikh Sayid bin Habib 
honoured him with the same confidence. 
Four hours’ sail brought us to the wooded headlands 
of Tembwe, the most projecting of which is about 
twenty-five miles from Makokomo Island, in the Bay of 
Ivirando, on the east coast of the lake. 
Near this point is seen a lofty range, rising a few 
miles from the lake in an irregular line of peaks, which, 
as it is depressed towards the north, presents a more 
arid appearance, and presently forms a range of a much 
lower altitude than the mountains of Tongwe, Fipa, 
Urungu, or Marungu. This continues — with gaps here 
and there for rivers to escape through to the lake — 
until a little north of Kasenge Island, where it rises 
again into the mountains of Goma, the highest of all 
round Lake Tanganika. 
At Kankindwa, which is in a little cove near Tembwe 
Cape, a native told us that the Lukuga flowed out of the 
lake to Rua ; another denied that flatly, and a third 
said that the Lukuga flowed out of the lake towards 
Rua, but that, meeting another river descending towards 
the Tanganika, it was stopped, and the two rivers 
formed a lake. 
As we sailed north from Tembwe and observed the 
