UJ1JI AND TANGANIKA. 
387 
spurs. Behind almost all of these are beautiful secluded 
inlets and bays, overshadowed by black-bearded moun- 
tains, which give birth to myriads of clear crystal 
streams. Deep chasms in their huge fronts are filled 
with forests of enormous trees, out of which the famous 
Goma canoes are cut. Through every gap in the range 
roars and tumbles a clear cold stream, and piled up 
behind are the loftiest alps of Goma. The eye cannot 
fail to be struck with the contrast between the serene 
blue of the sky, the gloom of the chasm, and the dark 
tops of the tree-crested ranges. The margins of these 
calm havens are lined with green water-cane and 
escliinomense, to which hundreds of yellow-breasted 
birds have suspended their 
nests, where the industrious 
little creatures may be seen 
in flocks too-ether, clinoino- 
belly upward or flying up 
and down, ever chirping their 
wheedling, persuasive song. 
On a firm bough extended 
over the wave sits the glossy 
and sleek diver, contented, 
sated with his finny prey ; 
or, perched upon the tall 
branch of some towering syca- 
more or teak, may be seen the white-collared fish-eagle, 
uttering at intervals his weird, shrill call to his mate — 
a despairing, wailing cry. Presently, from some distant 
tree, at a commanding height, is heard the response, in 
the same doleful strain. 
But from Katenga, as far as the Bald Mount, near 
Mugolwe, the crests of the ridges are tawny and treeless. 
From Tanga to Mdanga Cape, gaps and chasms, inlets 
and bays, like those above described are numerous, and 
between Kabogo Biver and Missossi Mount there is a 
bay with five separate streams, descending from heights 
of 2000 feet in long silvery threads to the lake. 'The 
mountains seem to be dissolving in tears, for through 
every ravine or cleft or gap, chasm or rift, streams roll 
2 c 2 
TJHYEYA HEADDRESS. 
