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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The First, Starting From West To East, At The Broadest Part,
To The Extreme Southern Point Of Mugihewa, Was About
Three miles
broad, and served as a line of demarcation between Mukamba's district
of Ruwenga and Mugihewa of Ruhinga; it
Was also two miles deep.
The second bay was a mile from the southern extremity of Mugihewa
to Ruhinga's village at the head of the bay, and it was a mile
across to another spit of sand which was terminated by a small
island. The third bay stretched for nearly a mile to a long spit,
at the end of which was another island, one and a quarter mile
in length, and was the western side of the fourth bay, at the
head of which was the delta of the Rusizi. This fourth bay, at
its base, was about three miles in depth, and penetrated half
a mile further inland than any other. Soundings indicated six
feet deep, and the same depth was kept to within a few hundred
yards of the principal mouth of the Rusizi. The current was
very sluggish; not more than a mile an hour. Though we
constantly kept our binocular searching for the river, we
could not see the main channel until within 200 yards of it,
and then only by watching by what outlet the fishing; canoes came
out. The bay at this point had narrowed from two miles to about
200 yards in breadth. Inviting a canoe to show us the way, a
small flotilla of canoes preceded us, from the sheer curiosity
of their owners.
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