Chapter III

Leave Tanganyika--Determine to visit the Ukerewe lake, alias Victoria
N'yanza--Confusion about rivers running in and out--Idea that it is
the source of the Nile--Arrangements for the journey--Difficulties--The
march--Nature of the country--Formalities at the meeting of
caravans--A pagazi strike--A sultana--Incidents--Pillars of granite.

Chapter IV

First sight of the Victoria N'yanza--Its physical geography--Speculations
on its being the source of the Nile--Sport on the lake--Sultans
Machunda and Mahaya--Missionary accounts of the geography--Arab
accounts--Regrets at inability to complete the discovery--The march
resumed--History of the Watuta--Hippopotamus-hunting--Adventures--Kahama.

Chapter V

General character of the country traversed--The huts--The
geology--Productions--Land of promise--Advice to missionaries--Leave
Ulekampuri--Return of the expedition--Register of temperature.





Journal of Adventures in Somali Land.