How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
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He Also Lost His Lead And 100 Fathoms
Of His Line, But He Had Nearly 900 Fathoms Left, And This Was In
The Canoes.
We hope to use this long sounding line in going across
from the eastern to the western shore.
On the fourth day we arrived at Nyabigma, a sandy island in
Urundi. We had passed the boundary line between Ujiji and Urundi
half-an-hour before arriving at Nyabigma. The Mshala River is
considered by both nations to be the proper divisional line;
though there are parties of Warundi who have emigrated beyond the
frontier into Ujiji; for instance, the Mutware and villagers of
populous Kagunga, distant an hour north from Zassi. There are also
several small parties of Wajiji, who have taken advantage of the
fine lands in the deltas of the Kasokwe, Namusinga, and Luaba
Rivers, the two first of which enter the Tanganika in this bay,
near the head of which Nyabigma is situated.
From Nyabigma, a pretty good view of the deep curve in the great
mountain range which stretches from Cape Kazinga and terminates at
Cape Kasofu, may be obtained - a distance of twenty or twenty-five
miles. It is a most imposing scene, this great humpy, ridgy, and
irregular line of mountains. Deep ravines and chasms afford outlets
to the numerous streams and rivers which take their rise in the
background; the pale fleecy ether almost always shrouds its summit.
From its base extends a broad alluvial plain, rich beyond description,
teeming with palms and plantains, and umbrageous trees.
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