She Had Been Sent Two Years Ago By
The King, Kamrasi, From Unyoro, As A Spy Among The Traders, With Orders
To Attract Them To The Country If Appearances Were Favourable, But To
Return With A Report Should They Be Dangerous People.
"On her arrival at Faloro, Debono's people captured her, and she was
eventually sold to her present owner.
She speaks Arabic, having learnt
it from the traders' people. She declares that Magungo, the place of
which I have heard so much, is only four days' hard marching for a
native, direct from Faloro, but eight days' for the Turks; and that it
is equi-distant from Faloro and from Kamrasi's capital in Unyoro. She
had heard of the Luta N'zige, as reported to Speke, but she knew it only
by the name of 'Kara-wootan-N'zige.'
"She corroborated the accounts I had formerly received, of large boats
arriving with Arabs at Magungo, and she described the lake as a 'white
sheet as far as the eye could reach.' She particularized it as a
peculiar water, that was unlike other waters, as it would 'come up to a
water-jar, if put upon the shore, and carry it away and break it.' By
this description I understood 'waves.' She also described the 'Gondokoro
river,' or White Nile, as flowing into and out of the lake, and she
spoke of a 'great roar of water that fell from the sky.'
"I trust I may succeed in reaching this lake:
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