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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Direct North Of Urundi Is Ruanda;
Also A Very Large Country.
The Rusizi River - according to Ruhinga - rose near a lake called
Kivo, which he said is as long as from Mugihawa to Mugere, and
as broad as from Mugihewa to Warumashanya's country, or, say
eighteen miles in length by about eight in breadth.
The lake is
surrounded by mountains on the western and northern sides: on the
south-western side of one of these mountains issues the Rusizi - at
first a small rapid stream; but as it proceeds towards the lake it
receives the rivers Kagunissi, Kaburan, Mohira, Nyamagana,
Nyakagunda, Ruviro, Rofubu, Kavimvira, Myove, Ruhuha, Mukindu,
Sange, Rubirizi, Kiriba, and, lastly, the Ruanda River, which seems
to be the largest of them all. Kivo Lake is so called from the
country in which it is situated. On one side is Mutumbi (probably
the Utumbi of Speke and Baker), on the west is Ruanda; on the east
is Urundi. The name of the chief of Kivo is Kwansibura.
After so many minute details about the River Rusizi, it only
remained for us to see it. On the second morning of our arrival
at Mugihewa we mustered ten strong paddlers, and set out to explore
the head of the lake and the mouth of the Rusizi. We found that
the northern head of the lake was indented with seven broad bays,
each from one and a half to three miles broad; that long broad
spits of sand, overgrown with matete, separated each bay from the
other.
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