The Discovery of The Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke  






 -   Musa said this hill was
in Ruanda, a much larger country than Urundi; and further, both
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Musa Said This Hill Was In Ruanda, A Much Larger Country Than Urundi; And Further, Both Men Said, As They

Had said before, that the lands of Usoga and Unyoro were islands, being surrounded by water; and a salt lake,

Which was called N'yanza, though not the great Victoria N'yanza lay on the other said of the Unyoro, from which direction Rumanika, king of Karague, sometimes got beads forwarded to him by Kamrasi, king of Unyoro, of a different sort from any brought from Zanzibar. Moreover, these beads were said to have been plundered from white men by the Wakidi, - a stark-naked people who live up in trees - have small stools fixed on behind, always ready for sitting - wear their hair hanging down as far as the rump, all covered with cowrie-shells - suspend beads from wire attached to their ears and their lower lips - and wear strong iron collars and bracelets.

This people, I was told, are so fierce in war that no other tribe can stand against them, though they only fight with short spears. When this discourse was ended, ever perplexed about the Tanganyika being a still lake, I enquired of Mohinna and other old friends what they thought about the Marungu river: did it run into or out of the lake? and they all still adhered to its running into the lake - which, after all, in my mind, is the most conclusive argument that it does run out of the lake, making it one of a chain of lakes leading to the N'yanza, and through it by the Zambezi into the sea; for all the Arabs on the former journey said the Rusizi river ran out of the Tanganyika, as also the Kitangule ran out of the N'yanza, and the Nile ran into it, even though Snay said he thought the Jub river drained the N'yanza.

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