Kasenga, is situated two miles above the ford.
Near the crossing on either side are the saltpans
o f Uvinza, which furnish a respectable
revenue to its king. A square mile o f ground
is strewn with broken pots, embers o f fires, the
refuse o f the salt, lumps o f burnt clay, and
ruined huts. A s Rusunzu now owns all the land
to within fifteen miles o f Ujiji, there is no one
to war with for the undisputed possession o f
the salt-pans.
Through a forest jungle separated at intervals
b y narrow strips o f plain, and crossing six small
tributaries o f the Malagarazi b y the w a y , we
journeyed twenty-three miles, to a camp near
the frontier o f the district o f Uguru, or the hill
country of. Western Uhha.
T h e northern slopes o f these mountain masses
o f Uguru, about fifteen miles north o f the sources
o f the Liuché, are drained b y the southern
feeders o f the Alexandra Nile; the western, b y
the Mshala; the southern, b y the Liuché; and
the eastern, b y the Uhha tributaries o f the
Malagarazi. T h e boundaries o f Uhha, Urundi,
and Ujiji meet at these mountains, which are
probably 6500 feet above the sea.
W e greeted our friend o f Niamtaga, whom
we had met in November in 1871, but, alas for
him ! two weeks later he was taken b y surprise
b y Rusunzu, and massacred with nearly three-
fourths o f his people.
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A t noon o f the 27th May the bright waters
o f the Tanganika broke upon the view, and
compelled me to linger admiringly for a while,
as I did on the day I first beheld them. B y 3
P.M. we were in Ujiji. Muini Kheri, Mohammed
bin Gharib, Sultan bin Kassim, and Khamis the
Baluch greeted me kindly. Mohammed bin Sali
was dead. Nothing was changed much, excep t
the ever-changing mud tembes o f the Arabs.
The square or plaza where I met David Livingstone
in November 1871 is now occupied b y
large tembes. The house where he and I lived
has long ago been burnt down, and in its place
there remain only a few embers and a hideous
void. T he lake expands with the same grand
beauty before the eyes as we stand in the
market-place. The opposite mountains o f Goma
have the same blue-black colour, for th ey are
everlasting, and the Liuche river continues its
course as brown as ever just east and south o f
Ujiji. The surf is still as restless, and the sun
as bright; the sk y retains its glorious azure, and
the palms all their beauty; but the grand old
hero, whose presence once filled Ujiji with such
absorbing interest for me, was gone!
END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
Printed by Julius Sittenfeld, Berlin.