or Ruanda coast, and near a small village attempted
to land, but the natives snarled like so many-
spiteful dogs, and. drew their bows, which compelled
us— being guests o f Rumanika— to sheer
o ff and leave them in their ferocious exclusiveness.
Am v ittg at the Kagera again, we descended
it, and at 7 p .m . were in our little camp of
Kazinga, at the south end: o f Windermere.
On the 1 ith we rowed into the Kagera, and
descended the river as far as Ugoi, and on the
evening o f the x 2th returned once more to our
camp on Windermere.
The next day, having instructed Frank to
convey the boat to Kafurro, I requested Ruma-
mka to furnish me with guides for the Mtagata
hot springs, and, faithful to his promise, thirty
Wanyambu were detailed for the service.
Our route la y north a lon g the crest o f a
lo fty ridge between Kafurro and Windermere.
Wherever we looked, we beheld gra s sy ridges,
g ra s sy slopes, grassy mountain summits, and
g ra s sy valleys— an eminently pastoral country.
In a few gorges or ravines the dark tops o f
trees were seen.
When Windermere L ak e and Isossi, its northern
mount, were south o f us, w e descended into a
winding grassy valley, and in our march o f ten
miles from Isossi to K a s y a l counted thirty-two
separate herds o f cattle, which in the aggregate
prob ably amounted to 900 head. W e also saw
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s e v e n rh in o c e ro se s , th r e e o f w h ich w e r e w h i te ,
a n d four a b la c k b row n . T h e g u id e s w ish e d
m e to s h o o t one, b u t I w a s s c a r c e o f ammunition,
an d as I Could n o t g e t a certain s h o t , I w a s
lo a th to Wound u n n e c e s s a r ily , o r th r ow a w a y
a ca r tr id g e .
T h e next day, at 8 A.M., near the end o f the
v a lle y , we came to Merure L ak e , which is about
two miles long, and thence, crossing three
different mountains, arrived at Kiwandare mountain,
and from its summit, 5600 feet above the
Sea, obtained a tolerably distinct view o f the
triple cone o f Ufumbiro, in a west-north-west
direction, Mag. I should estimate the distance
from Kiwandare^ to Ufumbiro to be about forty-
five miles, and about s ix ty miles from the mountain
height above Rumanika’s capital. Several
lines o f mountains, with lateral valleys between,
rose between the v a lle y o f the Alexandra Nile
and Ufumbiro.
From Kiwandare we descended gradually along
its crest to a lower terrace. A b out 5 P.M. one
o f our party sighted a dark brown double-horned
rhinoceros, and as we had no meat, and the
nature o f the ground permitted e asy approach,
I crept up to within fifty yards o f it unperceived
and sent in a zinc bullet close to the ear, which
bowled it over dead.
T h e quantity o f meat obtained from the- animal
was more than would supply the eighteen men,
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