UJIJI AND TANGANIKA. 
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At present there are only a few inches of mud-banks 
and a frail barrier of papyrus and reeds to interpose 
between the waters of the lake and its destiny, which it 
is now, year by year, steadily approaching. When the 
Tanganika has risen three feet higher, there will be no 
surf at the mouth of the Lukuga, no sill of sand, no 
oozing mud-banks, no rush-covered old river-course, but 
the accumulated waters of over a hundred rivers will 
sweep through the ancient gap with the force of a 
cataclysm, bearing away on its flood all the deposits of 
WOMAN OF TJGUHA. 
organic debris at present in the Lukuga Creek, down 
the steep incline to swell the tribute due to the mighty 
Livingstone. 
On the 21st of July we sailed from the mouth of the 
future outlet Lukuga by Cape Kahangwa, to the Arab 
crossing-place near Kasenge Island. 
The Waguha, along whose country we had voyaged 
south since leaving Tembwe, are an unusually cere- 
monious people. They are the first specimens of those 
nations among whom we are destined to travel in our 
exploration of the western regions. 
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