From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . n utensils filled with freshmilk, and our welcome was most cordial. Forests of bananas stretchedfar as the eye could reach to the north, east, and west, and vast fieldsof peas and beans bore witness to the fertility and prosperity of thecountry. To the south lay the mighty valley of the Rusisi, stretching awaybetween its enclosing walls of hills, till, in the far distance, gleamed thewaters of Tanganyika. Bidding a last farewell to those historic waters, we plunged into thewild turmoil of hills that surround Kivu, and a
From the Cape to Cairo; the first traverse of Africa from south to north . n utensils filled with freshmilk, and our welcome was most cordial. Forests of bananas stretchedfar as the eye could reach to the north, east, and west, and vast fieldsof peas and beans bore witness to the fertility and prosperity of thecountry. To the south lay the mighty valley of the Rusisi, stretching awaybetween its enclosing walls of hills, till, in the far distance, gleamed thewaters of Tanganyika. Bidding a last farewell to those historic waters, we plunged into thewild turmoil of hills that surround Kivu, and after a six hours tramp,accompanied on the way by Ngenzi and his hundred followers, notforgetting the inevitable cup-bearer with his gourd of pombe and theregal sucking-straw, climbed on to a ridge from which we saw the watersof Kivu lying at our feet. The mighty sheet of water, dotted with a hundred isles and hemmedin by a thousand imposing hills, was of surpassing beauty; the only oneof the vast lakes of Central Africa that had not been first gazed upon byBritish CHAPTER XI LAKE KIVU Jt N abrupt descent led us through many straggling villages and / \ endless banana plantations to the German Soudanese post onj[_ \_ the extreme south-west point of the lake. We camped on a small rise opposite the Government stockadeand overlooking the lake; the outlet is a long thin arm, narrowing to wherethe Rusisi tumbles over the first cascades, and starts on its broken coursethrough the hills to the point whence it finally issues on its long, longjourney by Tanganjdka to the sea. The body of water leaving the lake issmall, but with the numerous tributaries from east and west, soon swells toa considerable size; and forty miles from Tangmyika it is of about thesame volume as the Thames at Richmond, The south-western extremity of Kivu is really a small lake in itself,separated as it is from the main body of the lake by a narrow neck, Avhichis again almost blocked by a network of islands.
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