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ment got up for our amusement. Not a word, gesture, 
or movement on our part indicated either resentment or 
pleasure, until the natives ceased their furious demon- 
strations. Para was then told to inform them that we 
would have nothing to say to such wild people, who at 
sight of strangers showed such foolish fury. 
We turned away without another word, resumed our 
journey, and in an hour were abreast of Kiunyu, the 
village of the chief Mahonga. We spoke to them : they 
mocked us. We asked them if they would sell us some 
grain, but they replied that they were not our slaves, 
and that they had not sowed the land with grain to sell 
it to us. We pulled away from them without another 
word. The silly people cried out that we were running 
away, and at once launched about a dozen canoes and 
followed us. Encouraged by the infuriates and mockers 
on the shore, as also by our pacific behaviour, they 
became excited to a dangerous state, and gesticulated 
with their arrows and spears. Owing to the ferocious 
spirit of the people, we had to seek a camp among the 
reeds and papyrus in the delta of the Mtambara river, 
where, though troubled with mosquitoes, we slept un- 
disturbed by the insensate ferocity of the Wabembe 
cannibals. 
On the 28th we skirted the low land which lies at the 
foot of the western mountains, and by noon had arrived 
at the little cove in Masansi, near the Rubumba or the 
Luvumba river, at which Livingstone and I terminated 
our exploration of the northern shores of Lake Tanganika 
in 1871. I had thus circumnavigated Lake Tanganika 
from Ujiji up the eastern coast, along the northern head, 
and down the western coast as far as Rubumba river in 
1871, and in June-July 1876 had sailed south from 
Ujiji along the eastern coast to the extreme south end 
of the lake, round each inlet of the south, and up the 
western coast to Panza Point, in Ubwari, round the 
shores of Burton Gulf, and to Rubumba river. The 
north end of the lake was located by Livingstone in 
south latitude 3° 18' ; the extreme south end I dis- 
covered to be in south latitude 8° 47', which gives it a 
