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Updated: May 20, 2025
"The Victoria N'yanza is called by two names, 'Sessy' or 'Kurewe. Although large, it is small in comparison with the M'wootan N'zige" There was no news of Livingstone; but, according to my request from Masindi, M'tese had sent everywhere in search of him, and he had forwarded my two letters addressed to him in different directions.
Now, returning again to the western side, we find that the N'yanza is plentifully supplied by those streams coming from the Lunae Montes, of which the Arabs, one and all, give such consistent and concise accounts; and the flowings of which, being north-easterly, must, in course of time and distance, commingle with those north-westerly off-flowings, before mentioned, of Mount Kaenia.
We crossed over a low spur of hill extending from the mountainous kingdom of Nkole, on our left, towards the N'yanza. Here I was shown by Nasib a village called Ngandu, which was the farthest trading depot of the Zanzibar ivory-merchants.
This once agreed upon, I then proposed that, after reaching Kaze, we should travel northwards to the lake described by the Arabs to be both broader and longer than the Tanganyika, and which they call Ukerewe, after the island where their caravans go for ivory in short, the Victoria N'yanza for I was all the while burning to see it. To this Captain Burton at first demurred.
All the native carriers have, as usual, absconded. We are now about twenty-seven riles from Masindi, the head-quarters of Kabba Rega, and yet there are no signs of control. "I ascended a small hill near the village, and sighted the waters of the Albert N'yanza, due west, about twenty miles distant. "April 21. About fifty natives collected.
I then begged he would allow me, whilst his men were absent at Unyoro, to go to the Masai country, and see the Salt Lake at the north-east corner of the N'yanza, and to lend me some of his boats for Grant to fetch powder and beads from Karague.
Kabba Rega had replied that "he did not believe it, as he had heard that he was simply a trader." Reports had reached Unyoro that I had arrived at Gondokoro, and that I was on my way to visit Kamrasi, and to explore the Albert N'yanza; therefore Kabba Rega had questioned Abou Saood concerning me.
We started early in the usual manner; but after working up and down the creek, inspecting the inlets for hippopotami, and tiring from want of sport, the king changed his tactics, and, paddling and steering himself with a pair of new white paddles, finally directing the boats to an island occupied by the Mgussa, or Neptune of the N'yanza, not in person for Mgussa is a spirit but by his familiar or deputy, the great medium who communicates the secrets of the deep to the king of Uganda.
We were informed that we had arrived at Magungo, and after skirting the floating reeds for about a mile we entered a broad channel, which we were told was the embouchure of the Somerset River from Victoria N'yanza. In a short time we landed at Magungo, where we were welcomed by the chief and by our guide Rabonga, who had been sent in advance to procure oxen.
It will be kept in view that the hanging about at this court, and all the perplexing and irritating negotiations here described, had always one end in view that of reaching the Nile where it pours out of the N'yanza, as I was long certain that it did. Without the consent and even the aid of this capricious barbarian I was now talking to, such a project was hopeless.
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