boat-work, though they are by no means the
champions of the march. But as they have only
light loads, there has never been reason to
complain of them.
There is much handshaking, many cries of
Take care of yourselves,^’ and then both boat
and canoe hoist sail, turning their heads along
the coast to the south.
Kasimbu, two miles from Ugoy to Ujiji, sends
forth her Arab and slave inhabitants to cry out
their farewells, and half an hour afterwards we
are at the mouth of the Liuche river.
The reason why Arabs, Wajiji, and Wa-
ngwana have been more than usually demonstrative
is that they will not believe that such
a frail structure as our boat will be able to
endure the heavy waves of the Tanganika. They
declared we should all be drowned, but our
Wangwana have ridiculed their fears, and quoted
her brilliant exploit round a lake twice the size
of the Tanganika, and so at last they had come
to be satisfied with a dismal “Well, you shall
see! ”
During nearly the whole of the next day our
voyage to the south is along the forest-clad
slopes of Ulambola and the tawny plains of
TJkaranga, until we arrive at the mouth of the
Malagarazi river. At 3 p.m. we rowed up river,
which at the mouth is about 600 yards wide,
and sends a turbid brown stream into the lake.
When a continuous south-west wind blows, its
waters are known to tinge the lake with its
colour as far as Ujiji. The river soon narrows
to 200 yards, and about five miles up to 150
yards. I sounded twice, and obtained over 50
feet each time. The southern bank is very
mountainous, but on the opposite side stretches
a plain until the detached ranges of Ukaranga
become massed, about five miles from the lake,
and, running easterly, form the northern bank
of the river.
On the 13th our voyage was along the bold
mountain spurs of Kawendi, forming a steep,
rock-bound coast, indented at frequent intervals
with calm, pool-like bays, and their heights
clothed with solemn woods.
At noon we were off Kabogo’s lofty headland,
and remembering that Dr. Livingstone had said
that he could find no bottom at 300 fathoms,
I sounded a mile off shore, and found 109 fathoms.
A t two miles off I found no depth with 140
fathoms. I then fastened sixty fathoms more,
but at 1200 feet obtained no bottom.
About four miles south of dreaded Kabogo,
on a narrow strip of sand, we beached our boat
and canoe far out of the heavy surf, and then
climbed the 2000 feet-high slopes in search of
game; but the grass was high, the jungle dense,
the slope steep and fatiguing, and we had to
return without sighting a single head.