THE RIVER THAT FLOWED NORTH, NORTH, NORTH. 395 
1400 yards wide, a broad river of a pale grey colour, 
winding slowly from south and by east. 
We hailed its appearance with shouts of joy, and 
rested on the spot to enjoy the view. Across the river, 
beyond a tawny, grassy stretch towards the south-south- 
west, is Mount Kijirna ; about 1000 feet above the 
valley, to the south-south-east, across the Luama, runs 
the Luhye-ya ridge ; from its base the plain slopes to 
the swift Luama. In the bed of the great river are two 
or three small islands, green with the verdure of trees 
and sedge. I likened it even here to the Mississippi, as 
it appears before the impetuous, full-volumed Missouri 
pours its rusty-brown water into it. 
A secret rapture filled my soul as I gazed upon the 
majestic stream. The great mystery that for all these 
centuries Nature had kept hidden away from the world 
of science was waiting to be solved. For 220 miles I had 
followed one of the sources of the Livingstone to the 
confluence, and now before me lay the superb river 
itself ! My task was to follow it to the Ocean. 
We resumed our journey. The men, women, and 
children joined in a grand chorus, while a stentor from 
Unyamwezi attempted, in a loud and graphic strain, a 
description of the joy he felt. 
How quickly we marched ! What a stride and what 
verve there was in our movements ! Faster, my friends, 
faster ! that you may boast to the Arabs at Nyangwe 
what veterans you are ! 
There was no word uttered enjoining quicker speed, 
but my people seemed intuitively to know my wish : 
even the youthful gun-bearers vied with each other in an 
exhibition of pedestrianism. 
Over hill and dale we paced through Uzura, and about 
noon entered the village of Mkwanga, eight miles north- 
north-west of the confluence of the Luama and the 
Lualaba. 
At Mkwanga we met two Wangwana, who informed 
us that the Arabs at Mwana Mamba’s had just returned 
from an expedition into the forest of Manyema, to avenge 
the murder of an Arab called Mohammed bin Soud, and 
