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with mosquitoes, we slept undisturbed by the
insensate ferocity of the Wabembe cannibals.
On the 28th we skirted the low land which
lies at the foot of the western mountains, and by
noon had arrived at the little cove in Masansi,
near the Rubumba or the Luvumba river, at
which Livingstone and I terminated our exploration
of the northern shores of Lake Tanganika
in 1871. I had thus circumnavigated Lake Tanganika
from Ujiji up the eastern coast, along
the northern head, and down the western coast
as far as Rubumba river in 1871, and in June—
July 1876 had sailed south from Ujiji along the
eastern coast to the extreme south end of the
lake, round each inlet of the south, and up
the western coast to-Lanza Point, in Ubwari,
round the shores of Burton Gulf, and to Rubumba
river. ^ The north end of the lake was located
by Livingstone in south latitude 30 18'; the
extreme south end I discovered to be in south
latitude 8° 47', which gives it a length of 329
geographical miles. Its breadth varies from ten
to forty-five miles, averaging about twenty-eight
miles, and its superficial area covers a space of
9240 square miles.
On the 29th we crossed over from our haven
near Muzimu Island, on the east side of Ubwari,
to Kioga, in Urundi, where we were welcomed
by our old friend Kinoza, the chief.
In mid-lake, I sounded, using a 3^-jb. soundrJuly
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ing-lead with 1280 feet of cord, and found no
bottom. I devoted an hour to this work, and
tried a second time a mile nearer the Urundi
coast, with the same results— no bottom. The
strain at such a great depth on the whip-cord
was enormous, but we met with no accident.
On the 31st we arrived at Ujiji, after an absence
of fifty-one days, during which time we
had sailed without disaster or illness a distance
of over 810 miles. The entire coast line of
the Tanganika is about 930 miles.