. orth. The river-like prolongation of Liemba to Moero, and where I could not follow the arm of I worked my way to this lake. Since coming to sthe testimony of natives and Arabs has been so united and con-sistent that I am but ten days from Lake Bemba, or Bangweolo,that I cannot doubt its accuracy. I am so tired of explorationwithout a word from home or anywhere else for two years, thatI must go to Ujiji on Tanganyika for letters before doing any-thing else. The banks and country adjacent to Lake Bangweo
. orth. The river-like prolongation of Liemba to Moero, and where I could not follow the arm of I worked my way to this lake. Since coming to sthe testimony of natives and Arabs has been so united and con-sistent that I am but ten days from Lake Bemba, or Bangweolo,that I cannot doubt its accuracy. I am so tired of explorationwithout a word from home or anywhere else for two years, thatI must go to Ujiji on Tanganyika for letters before doing any-thing else. The banks and country adjacent to Lake Bangweoloare reported to be now very muddy and very unhealthy Ihave no medicine. The inhabitants suffer greatly from swelledthyroid gland or Derbyshire neck and elephantiasis, and this isthe rainy season and very unsafe for me. « When at the lower end of Moero we were so near Casembethat it was thought well to ascertain the length of the lake, andsee Casembe too. We came up between the double-range thatflanks the east of the lake; but mountains and plains are so V. CAZEMBE IN STATE DRESS. KECEPTION AT CASEMBEs. 551 covered with well-grown forest that we could seldom see reached Casembes town on the 28th November. It standsnear the north end of the Lakelet Mofwe; this is from one tothree miles broad, and some six or seven long: it is full of sedgyislands, and abounds in fish. The country is quite level, butfifteen or twenty miles west of Mofwe we see a long range ofthe mountains of Rua. Between this range and Mofwe theLuapula flows past into Moero, the lake called Moero okata =the great Moero, being about fifty miles long. The town ofCasembe covers a mile square of cassava plantations, the hutsbeing dotted over that space. Some have square enclosures ofreeds, but no attempt has been made at arrangement: it mightbe called a rural village rather than a town. No estimatecould be formed by counting the huts, they were so irregularlyplanted, and hidden by cassava; but my impression f
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