2 g 6 THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT. fMareh 21,1876.1
[AtRumanika’s.J
are very good, but you cannot proceed through Mpororo as
wicked^airt ltanS~ deVliS~ and thC Wanya-Ruanda ’are
t a l l T ’ °a °tU°S h>I,p“ ed WMewa„,
Cd t0 go there» they never tolerate strangers A
strange people, and full of guile verily! '
is I T a T i t 18 3 C°Untry CalIed Mkinyaga, and there
been Z J 6 ^ S° * ^ Arab*
Then a native o f Western Usui, at the request
o f Kumamka, said: —
“Mkinyaga is west of Kivu Lake or Nianja Cha-Ngoma
om which the Rusizi River flows into the lake of Uzigd
Unvamb J ° ^ i P S i f t i W Pa^ through
Unyambungu first, then you will see the trreat I akf> f
Mkinyaga. Lake Kivu-has a connection w L ^ l a k l Aka
nyaru, though there is much grass, as in the Ingezi, below
ere. A canoe could almost reach Kivu from Kishakka
but it would be hard work. ’
“ Akanyaru, which the Wahha call Nianja Cha-Ngoma is
aVb T t T 11 wm take a day and a half I B I
b e J 1 WR S three dayS' Can° e j ° urney in length. It lies
b e t::: udhhTa; and and Urundi ufrluonwdsi -inTtoh e iKt a^t ua« &tvt &
The Ruvuvu between Kishakka and Karagwe enters the
Kagera; the Kagera comes into the Ingezi, and flows by
west from Kibogora s capital, in West Usui. Kivu has no
connection with Muta Nzige, the lake of U n y o ro /
° f Zanzibar who had accom-
bin Abdallah *°
W i l ee w“ * o t K ^ K^Uhha> | saw a
y there is much water there. Urundi was
to my left. Ruanda fronted me across, and I stood on
Uhha.”
Rumanika followed, and imparted at length all
his information, o f which I append only the
pith:—
“ Leaving Mpororo, you may reach by canoes Makinda’s,
in Utumbi, in half a day. The island is called Kabuzzi.
Three hours will take a canoe thence to Karara Island, and
from Karara Island another half-day will take you to Ukonju,
where there is a tribe of cannibals.
“ Mkinyaga is at the end of Ruanda, and its lake is Muta
Nzige, on which you can go to Unyoro. There is a race of
dwarfs somewhere west of Mkinyaga called the Mpundu, and
another called the Batwa or Watwa, who are only two feet
high. In Uriambwa is a race of small people with tails.
“ Uitwa, or Batwa—Watwa, is at the extreme south end of
,Usongora.
“ From Butwa, at the end of a point of land in Ruanda,
you can see Uitwa Usongora.
“ From Butwa, Mkinyaga is to the left of you about three
days’ journey.
“ Some of the Waziwa saw a strange people in one of
those far-off lands who had long ears descending to their
feet; one ear formed a mat to sleep on, the other served to
cover him from the cold like a dressed hide! They tried
to coax one of them to come and see me, but the journey
was long, and he died on the way.”
Dear old Rumanika, how he enjoyed presiding
over the Geographical Society o f Karagwe, and
how he smiled when he delivered this last e x traordinary
piece o f Munchhausenism! He was
determined that he should be considered as the
best informed o f all present, and anticipated