his poor mate stretched out still and dead, also
expressed, as clearly as canine nature would
allow, his great sorrow at his lamentable fate.
Grave and deliberate from years and long travel,
he walked round the b od y two or three times!
examining it carefully, and then advanced to me
with his honest eyes wide open as if to ask,
What has caused this?” Receiving no answer,
he went aside and sat down with his back to
me, solemn and sad, as though he were ruminating
despondingly on the evils which beset
dog and man alike in this harsh and wicked
world.
T he next day, marching in an east b y north
direction from Jack’s Mount,; we crossed the
Zedziwa, a stream rising at the base o f a hill
situated but two miles from the north-western
extremity o f “ Grant* B a y ,” which I believe to
be the “ Luajerri,” a stream S p ek e sketched on
his map as issuing from the Victoria and forming
a second outlet into the Nile.
Having explored b y water all the coast washed
b y the Victoria Nyanza, and having since travelled
on foot the entire distance between Nakaranga
Cape and Buka Bay, I can state positively that
there is but one outlet from the lake, viz. the
Ripon Falls. There are three rivers, one on
the Usoga side o f Napoleon Channel, called the
* So called after Colonel James Augustus Grant, the amiable
and chivalrous companion of Speke.
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Nagombwa, and two on the Uganda side— the
Zedziwa, rising in Makindo near Grant Bay, and
the Mwerango, rising west o f Mtesa’s capital—
any o f which, seen b y travellers journeying at
a little distance from the lake, might be supposed
by them to be outlets o f L ak e Victoria. The
Nagombwa empties into the Victoria Nile not
far from Urondogani; the Zedziwa empties into
the Victoria Nile near Urondogani, and the Mwerango
flows into the Mianja, the Mianja flows
into the Kafu, and the -Kafu into the Victoria
Nile, somewhere in the neighbourhood o f Riong a s
Island.
A t . Makindo I received the Emperor’s salaams
for the fifth time since arriving in Uganda, and
his walking-stick* as a token that it really was
Mtesa who sent the repeated messages o f welcome.
B y sea and b y land his messengers o f
welcome had met me, and each stage was supplied
with an “ augmented greeting” with many
manifestations o f his regard. I was well convinced,
from the repeated expeditions sent b y
land and water to hunt up news o f me when
Magassa reported me as dead, that the friendship
conceived for me b y Mtesa was something
more than in name.
Arriving next day at Ugungu, opposite Jinja,
or the Ripon Falls, two more messengers came
* This custom of sending walking-sticks also obtains in
Dahomey;