Royal Geographical Society before leaving Unyan-
yemb4 was so substantially correct that in its general
outlines I bad nothing whatever to alter. Further,
as. I drew that map after proving their first statements
about the Tanganyika, which were made before my
going there, I have every reason to feel confident of
their veracity relative to their travels north through
Karague, and to Kibuga in Uganda.
When Sheikh Snay told us of the Ukffidwe, as he
called the N’yanza, on our first arrival at Kaze, proceeding
westward from Zanzibar, he said, “ If you
have come only to see a large bit of water, you had
better go northwards and see the Ukffiewd; for it is
much greater in every respect than the Tanganyika J ”
and so, as far as I can ascertain, it is. Muanza, our
journey’s end, now lay at our feet. I t is an open,
well-cultivated plain on the southern end, and lies
almost flush with the lake | a happy, secluded-looking
comer, containing every natural facility to make life
pleasant. After descending the hill, we followed along
the borders of the lake, and at first entered Mahaya’s
Palace, when the absence of boats arousing my suspicions,
made me inquire where the Arabs, on coming
to Muanza, and wishing to visit Ukffiew^, usually
resided. This, I heard, was some way farther o n ; so
with great difficulty I persuaded the porters to come
away and proceed at once to where they said an Arab
was actually living. I t was a singular coincidence
that, after Sheikh Snay’s caution as to my avoiding
Sultan Mahaya’s Palace, by inquiring diligently about
him yesterday, and finding no one who knew his name,
the first person I should have encountered was himself,
and that, too, in his own Palace. The reason of
this was, that big men in this country, to keep up
their dignity, have several names, and thus mystify
the traveller.
I then proceeded along the shore of the lake in an
easterly direction, and on the way shot a number of
red Egyptian geese, which were very numerous ; they
are the same sort here as I once saw in the Somali
country. Another goose, which unfortunately I could
not kill, is very different from any I ever saw or heard
o f: it stands as high as the Canadian bird, or higher,
and is black all over, saving one little white patch
beneath the lower mandible. I t was fortunate that I
came on here, for the Arab in question, called Mansur
bin Salim, treated me very kindly, and be had retainers
belonging to the country, who knew as much about
the lake as anybody, and were of very great assistance.
I also found a good station for making observations
on the lake. I t was Mansur who first informed me of
my mistake of the morning; but he said that the evil
reports spread at Unyanyembe about Mahaya had no
foundation, on the contrary, he had found him a very
excellent and obliging person.
To-day we marched eight miles, and have concluded
our journey northwards, a total distance of 226 miles
from Kaze, which, occupying twenty-five days, is at
the rate of nine miles per diem, halts inclusive.
ith .—Early in the morning I took a walk of three