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The morning wind was too high for crossing from Kabizia to Kasenge, but at noon we embarked, and after paddling for ninety minutes S. 80o W., we arrived at the latter island, my destination. Sheikh Hamed bin Sulayyim, with many attendants and a host of natives, was standing ready to receive me.
A spring of warm and bitter water flowed from the hill over the surface to a distance of 400 or 500 yards, where it was absorbed by the soil. The temperature of the sources immediately under the hill was 106o Fahr., the thermometer standing at 80o in the air, and the aneroid gave an altitude of 728 feet above the sea. The rocks behind these springs were covered with ruins of mosques and houses.
As the Arabs do not keep thermometers, scientific instruments, or properly distributed months and seasons, I must say for them that from 2o to 6o south latitude we found the mean temperature in the hottest month, August, to be only 80o; that Uganda must be quite 4000 feet above the sea, to be higher than the lake which it borders; that the rainy season is during our winter months, but most so in the spring; and that the rivers, as we see by the Malagarazi, increase more after than before that date; that as the movement of the rains tends from the southward to the northward, advancing with the sun, the same influence that swells the Malagarazi would also affect the Uganda rivers, as they rise merely on opposite sides of the axis of the same mountains.
6 A.M. 9 A.M. Noon. 3 P.M. 6 P.M. 65o 85o 108o 107o 80o Mean temperature. 63o 113o Extreme: difference, 50o of variation. List of Stores along this Line. Rice is grown at Unyanyembe, or wherever the Arabs settle, but is not common, as the negroes, considering it poor food, seldom eat it. Animal. Cows, sheep, goats, fowls, donkeys, eggs, milk, butter, honey.
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