. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . hose extremity we camped at a village calledKisalio. Our route each day now was across flatextents of land, from which the Lake had withintwenty-five years or so receded. They are coveredover with low bush, which at this season is ground is dry, streamless, hard-baked and cracked,and shows a nitrous efflorescence in many places. Toour right, as the land rises, on ridges over fifty feetabove the Lake, we find a thin dwarf forest; at a hundredfeet elevation we see respectable trees, and grassesb
. In darkest Africa; or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria . hose extremity we camped at a village calledKisalio. Our route each day now was across flatextents of land, from which the Lake had withintwenty-five years or so receded. They are coveredover with low bush, which at this season is ground is dry, streamless, hard-baked and cracked,and shows a nitrous efflorescence in many places. Toour right, as the land rises, on ridges over fifty feetabove the Lake, we find a thin dwarf forest; at a hundredfeet elevation we see respectable trees, and grassesbecome more nutritious. We cut across a broad cape-like formation of landand passed from the bay of Kisaho to a bay near Itarion the 20th, and from the summit of a high ridge nearthe latter place I perceived by compass bearings andsolar observation, that we were much south of thesouth-west coast line, as marked on my map in Throughthe Dark Continent. From this elevated ridge couldbe seen the long series of islands overlapping oneanother, which, in our flight from the ferocious natives. Itari A DISCOVERT. 421 of Bumbire in 1875, without oars, had been left un- , and which, therefore, I had sketched as main- ?^^- ^^land. We find that the Wazinja call the Victoria NyanzaMuta Nzige, as the Wanyoro call the Albert Lake MutaNzige, and the Wasongora and Wanyankori call theAlbert Edward by the same name. On leaving Itari we were made aware of lions havingpaid the vicinity of our camp a visit by a dead zebrawhich had just been killed. We were also astonished atthe number of human skulls about, and when we askedthe guides the cause, we were informed that at Itari theWazinja endeavoured to oppose the Waganda duringtheir late invasion. It may be that the Wazinjadeserved the cruel visitation. It is well known thatUsui needs a lesson like it. The last caprice of Kasa-sura has been to halt a caravan of 150 guns. As we reflected on the various events which appear tohave occurred in
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