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glimpse of those refreshing views which we had ad- 
mired, and we see that distance has already transformed 
them into a long blue hazy outline. 
We sailed all day within a stone’s-throw of the shore 
of Groma, and in the evening put in at Kaganza, just 
north of Kiringi Point. 
On the 25th, on leaving Kaganza, we bade farewell 
to Goma, whose bare majestic front, as we continued 
north, was terminated by the low rounded hills of 
Kavunweh, and then, steering north-east, we skirted a 
THE SPIRIT ISLAND. 
low grassy land whose highest ridge was only 200 feet 
above the lake. This is the isthmus which connects the 
promontory of Ubwari and Karamba with the mainland. 
It is seven miles across to the gulf which separates 
Ubwari promontory from Ubembe and Usansi. 
Burton describes Ubwari thus : — 
“ It is the only island near the centre of the Tan- 
ganika, a long narrow lump of rock, twenty to twenty- 
live geographical miles long, by four or five of extreme 
breadth.” 
Livingstone calls it in his ‘ Last J ournals ’ the islet 
